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the Provinces to the north of Tucuman, Salta, and Jujuy, and to the 
east, Sante Fe, Chaco, and Corrientes (see fig. 13). The increase in 
the total area in sugar cane is shown by Table 36. 10 
Table 36. — Trend of acreage in sugar cane and of sugar produced 
Year 
Sugar cane 
Sugar 
produced 
Year 
Sugar cane 
Sugar 
produced 
1872 
Acres 
6,059 
52, 023 
119, 672 
174, 656 
Metric tons 
1,400 
~~~75~538~ 
161, 688 
1915 
Acres 
317, 395 
230, 476 
Metric tons 
149, 299 
1888 
1917 
80,088 
1898 . 
1918-22 (average) 
234. 000 
208, 467 
1908 
Table 37. — Distribution of sugar production 
by Provinces 
Provinces 
1918-19 
1919-20 
1920-21 
1921-22 
1922-23 
TuQuman ' 
Metric 
tons 
86, 561 
35, 266 
1,444 
317 
433 
1,926 
Metric 
tons 
250, 977 
38, 358 
1,881 
912 
603 
4,195 
Metric 
tons 
165, 008 
28, 939 
3,586 
10, 394 
559 
1,167 
Metric 
tons 
158,954 
23,230 
5,079 
1,735 
272 
2,029 
Metric 
tons 
182, 374 
Jujuv _____________ 
21,644 
Salta 
5,878 
Santa Fe 
1,379 
495 
Chaco-- . . . .. 
4,689 
Total 
125, 947 
296, 926 
209, 653 
191, 299 
216, 459 
Table 38. — Distribution of the sugar industry by Provinces, census of 1914 
Provinces 
Tucuman. 
Jujuy 
Salta 
Santa Fe.. 
Corrientes. 
Chaco 
Formosa.. 
Estab- 
Persons 
lish- 
em- 
ments 
ployed 
Number 
Number 
30 
9,074 
3 
3,843 
1 
195 
3 
589 
1 
154 
3 
645 
2 
184 
Capital 
invested 
Dollars 
48, 176, 377 
19, 246, 266 
' 639, 636 
6, 434, 390 
550, 680 
4, 825, 143 
547, 321 
Total. 
43 
14,684 80,419,813 
Maximum annual production 
capacity 
Sugar 
Metric 
321, 
78, 
3! 
1, 
tons 
570 
400 
500 
250 
750 
900 
081 
417,451 
Alcohol 
Gallons 
5, 689, 600 
1, 974, 900 
808, 500 
118, 8C0 
211,600 
52,800 
Refined 
sugar 
Metric tons 
82, 766 
ISO, 000 
8, 856, 200 
262, 766 
One of the principal sugar refineries in the country was established 
in Rosario in the Province of Santa Fe in 1889, and in recent years 
its equipment has been completely modernized. The same is true 
of many of the mills in the sugar region. The average yield of cane 
is from 30 to 40 tons per acre and the average percentage of sugar 
obtained is 8.5. 
Within recent years the native varieties of sugar cane suffered 
severely from a serious disease which threatened the existence of the 
industry, but, as the result of the work done by the director of the 
agricultural experiment station of Tucuman, the native varieties 
have been practically displaced by disease-resistant varieties from 
Java. The great variation in the quantity of sugar produced in 
different years is due to early frosts to which the crop is subject, 
especially in Tucuman, and to lack of sufficient water for irrigation. 
10 Tornquist, Ernesto & cla, limitada, Buenos Aires. The economic development of the Argentine 
Republic in the last 50 years. Buenos Aires, 1919; and data furnished by the Argentine Republic. Alinis- 
terio de Agricultura. Direction de Economia Rural y Estadistica. 
