I’ll Take Two Sugars Please, from Craig Mee
The economist and historian Ralph Davis estimates that the supply of sugar from the Caribbean into Britain rose from three or four thousand tons a year in the late fifteenth century to over two hundred thousand tons by the 1770s, or an increase of over fifty-fold. (The Rise of the Atlantic Economies, Cornell University Press, 1973, p. 251, 255).
Though sugar is coming off a solid hitout at the moment, and new lows have been seen, it may be one area that should be considered if booming emerging economies do not implode — though no doubt acreage, supply, weather and uses need to be considered.