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Mauritius has long been characterized as a sugar island. “Sugar is King in Mauritius,” said J.E. Meade in 1966 in his presidential address to the Royal Economic Society (Meade, 1967, p. 244). This was before recent industrialization. But still today sugar-cane fields completely dominate the landscape of Mauritius and the attachment of the population to sugar cane is more than just economic. This chapter describes the interaction between man and nature as it has evolved around sugar production and other agricultural production on Mauritius.
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Ambergris is a waxy substance found floating in or around the shores of tropical waters, believed to originate in the intestines of the sperm whale, and used in perfumery. Arrack is a spirit manufactured from sugar-cane juice.
This project aims at removing heavy volcanic rocks, which can be found practically everywhere, from the sugar fields.
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Ramkissoon, J. (1994). Sugar Cane and Other Agriculture. In: Lutz, W. (eds) Population — Development — Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03061-5_7
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