Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sugar Cane Empire


 Sugar cane, growing above, covers vast areas of inland Florida south of Lake Okeechobee and north of the Everglades.  Cane trucks below ferry a constant supply to the large processing factory, second photo below.


 The land and business is owned by the Fanjul family, which operates Domino sugar.  Here is more info:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjul_brothers
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1998/11/16/sweet.deal.html
Below, worker housing.

The landscape is unrelenting across much of the area:  no shade and only sugar cane fields.  Industrial agriculture.

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