Sugar has been a huge part of the world. Without sugar, no one will able to make the best dessert such as chocolate. Have you ever wondered where this ingredient came from? C. Allan Jones and Robert V. Osgood are researchers in different sectors of agriculture, and they wrote, “From the King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agriculture Technology and the Making of Hawaii’s Premier.” They discuss the development of sugarcane in Hawaii and the further production in some part of the United States. Sugarcane plantation in Hawaii would not be successful without the diligent immigrants who spend their whole lives working on the farm. Because of the immigrants who are mostly Filipinos and Japanese, they made it successful …show more content…
The plantation has been part of the success of sugar industry in Hawaii. Per to Susan M. Campbell who does compiling and annotating different articles from Plantation Archive and further processed just like the Ewa Plantation Company History. It indicated that Ewa Plantation Company joined the industry in 1890. By the first year of a plantation in production, it immediately started in the process of how they were going to make the farm successful. They began to gather laborers until the first group of Japanese workers arrived in April 1890 (Campbell para 2). Japanese workers became a part and served as a helping hand to the plantation. Building a reservoir in the plantation has been helpful for them which they get enough place in restoring water for a drought year. Crops getting enough water were their primary needs and provided an excellent breed. After two years of waiting, the first crop they harvest produced 2,849 tons of sugar and reach their goal in becoming the first company that collects over 61,000 tons of sugar a year by using a seed cane and planted in the broad area of Ewa Plantation and Honouliuli (para 4). By the result of the first crop, it gives them more courage to perform better. It continues to grow in industry year by year and been harvesting tons of sugar way more than their first crop. By 1932, Ewa Plantation raised tons of sugar per acre. Workers might go through a lot of struggle in growing the sugarcane from the first process of planting until the harvest time, but it replaced with worthiness and satisfaction by collecting tons of sugar. All their hard work has been paid off. The plantation owner must be celebrating a victory with everyone in the plantation. After the harvesting, It became successful and been recognized to the industry especially Hawaii. Susan Campbell mentioned, “Ewa Plantation was considered one of the most prosperous plantation in Hawaii…” (para 8),