A 2.2. How did the sugar-cane agribusiness develop over the following years?
The restructuring of Brazils sugar-cane agribusiness production which undoubtedly facilitated the modern industry that we have today was initiated in the early 1930s and was only possible thanks to the States intense action over a little longer than six decades of strong governmental intervention. Starting in 1933, when the Sugar and Alcohol Institute (IAA) was created, the Government took over a number of activities that back then determined the ways of the sugar-cane agribusiness. The states intervention dominated practically all of the industrys structure, and was responsible for the production and marketing cycle, including pricing, quotas, exportation and importation.
