Publication details
Řepařství a cukrovarnictví v Československu v letech velké hospodářské krize ve třicátých letech 20. století
| Title in English | Sugar Beet Growing and Sugar Industry in Czechoslovakia during Great Depression in 1930s |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | LISTY CUKROVARNICKÉ A ŘEPAŘSKÉ |
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| Keywords | sugar; sugar factories; sugar factories owners; sugar beet; sugar beet growing; sugar beet growers; peasant sugar factories; sugar beet union; the Agrarian Party; cartel; bank |
| Description | Sugar industry occupied an important position in the food structure of the Czech Lands (Czechoslovakia) especially from about the mid-19th century until the end of the First Republic. It was one of the leading exporters of the "white gold", which was mainly exported to neighboring countries and also to the Balkans and Turkey. The study focuses on the progress of the sugar crisis and the associated reduction in sown areas of sugar beet in Czechoslovakia from the late 1920s to mid-1930s, which heralded the agrarian crisis as part of the Great Depression. It is not limited only to the image of the sugar industry with all the accompanying phenomena that tried to help to weaken the symptoms of the crisis by means of cartel agreement and government intervention, but it also covers the economic and technical aspects of the industry, the links between the sugar cartel and the state apparatus, and the situation in the Czech agrarian financial capital. In connection with this, it also deals with the development on the world sugar market and its impact on Czechoslovak exports. The sugar crisis is closely monitored with regard to sugar beet cultivation as "communicating vessels". |
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