00853nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000245007100018260006600089300001100155500003500166520052300201583001900724  a08.06.01 M944  aProceedings of the 1985 meeting of West Indies sugar technologists  b[Sugar Association of the Caribbean]a[Port-of Spain]TTc1985  a851 p.  aIncludes bibliographies.  2 v.  aPapers discuss application of technology to a variety of field and factory activities in the Caribbean sugar industry.  Gives perspectives on the present and future of sugar as a sweetener. Discusses inter alia, applications of computers to the sugar industry; soils and water; cane varieties; distillery management; research and experiments in specific areas in different territories; agricultural diversification; the use of mechanical harvesters; weed and disease control; the harvesting period; and juice analysis.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR