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Show Utah Sugar Meet Hears Warning On Cuban Actions The political upheaval in Cuba has brought into sharp focus the necessity and importance of a domestic supply of sugar, a U.S. sugar expert told the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists Technolo-gists this week. In a panel discussion with the Canadian and British sugar beet spokesmen, Frank A. Kemp, president of the Great Western Sugar Co., Denver, and spokesman spokes-man for the U. S. beet industry in Washington, D.C., said: "Never before in history has it been so clear to the U. S. that a strong domestic beet sugar industry in-dustry is our best safeguard for a reliable source of that important impor-tant food, sugar." Kemp pointed out that the revolution in Cuba has endangered endan-gered U. S. supplies from that source and Castro's tinkering with the Cuban sugar economy "may bring changes in sugar production in many parts of the world with long lasting effects." He predicted that Castro will bring "higher sugar production costs and a decline in production. produc-tion. This, in turn, may stimulate cane production in other parts of the world but it will also have the effect of strengthening domestic do-mestic sugar production in many countries." Sugar production in other march, he said. Japan is establishing estab-lishing n rlnmpstir hppf. sntrnr industry, Turkey is an exporter of beet sugar and Chile has built or is in the process of building several beet sugar mills. Other countries are expanding or going into cane production. Two other speakers also discussed dis-cussed the world sugar situation. I They were Dr. K. W. Hill, asso- ciate director of program, Can-1 Can-1 ada Department of Agriculture, Otta, and Oswald S. Rose, Agricultural Agri-cultural Development Officer of British Sugar Corp. Hill said that Canadian beet sugar production now was about one fifth of total consumption and that his country also relied heavily on Cubar sugar supplies. sup-plies. Research, he told 600 sugar scientists and agriculturists here from the U. S. and six foreign countries, is the key to mastering production problems and that the need for basic research was even more keen than applied research. re-search. Rose pointed out the similarities similari-ties of sugar beet research problems prob-lems in many parts of the world. Research has enabled the British beet sugar industry to make big gains in the past 24 years. Yields have increased from 9.1 long tons per acre to more than 12 tons and "we have all the ingredients in-gredients for further progress. No longer is the sky the limit," Mr. Rose said. Society President, Harvey P. H. Johnson, in introducing the panel, pointed out that world sugar production in the last 10 years has more than doubled and that 43 per cent of the world sugar now is made from sugar beets. This 100 per cent increase in sugar production has come in the last decade, Johnson said, and it compares with a 45 per cent in meat production, a 30 to 45 per cent increase in wheat and gains and an increase of 35 per cent in production of fats and oils. The society held a four day technical convention here. Final sessions were held Friday. Advertising is one of the few callings in which it is advisable to pay attention to some one else's business.-Howard Newton. |
