A precocious appetite: industrial agriculture and the fertiliser revolution in Java's colonial cane fields, c. 1880-1914.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Knight, G. Roger | Copyright information

A few years before the outbreak of the First World War, the newly established International Institute for Agriculture in Rome (the precursor of the present-day Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) began collecting data on the worldwide production and use of chemical fertilisers. Its findings still have the power to astonish. They reveal that the Indonesian island of Java, with an area of no more than 125,500 square kilometres, considerable tracts of which are vo...

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