Friday, June 29, 2007
Sweetness, Now and Then
Today again we rise before dawn to fly an hour and visit a sugar mill in the interior of São Paulo State, the epicenter of this country's sugar and ethanol boom. Brazil is the world's largest sugar exporter and its lowest-cost sugar producer. Below, harvesting the cane now (via harvest machine) and in Brazil's colonial period (via slavery). Colonial production was based up north - most of today's sugar cane harvesting takes place in São Paulo State, created after 1889, when Brazil abolished slavery, the very last country to do so.
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