ABSTRACT
The mid-1920s saw the beginning of a phase of stagnation in Cuban sugar production, and in 1924 laws were passed restricting production to increase market prices. As part of the revolution’s socioeconomic program, the sugar sector was subjected to major changes. Improvement in the living and working conditions of the sugar workers and mechanization of sugar production were among the new government’s top priorities. The technical transformation of the backward sugar sector necessitated the establishment of an appropriate infrastructure, including mechanical workshops, warehouses, dams, and irrigation systems. The production of sugarcane by-products has come to account for an important share of the macroeconomic aggregates of the Cuban economy. The discovery of uses for sugarcane derivatives and the industrial processing of cane into animal feed are significant not only for Cuba but for all tropical countries that cultivate cane and are short of animal feed.
