Author: RIJKENS, R.H.,
Title: Curaçao. Verbetering van den Landbouw aldaar als middel ter verheffing der Kolonie. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Tiel, Van Loon, 1907. Original clothbacked boards. (v), 139pp. 14 illustrations with captions on 7 photo-plates, some tables in text (production and export statistics), footnotes, introduction, table of contents. A dutch language report by a former agricultural expert of the colony of Curaçao. After an assessment of the then present status of agriculture and its economic value, author supplies extensive recommendations for improvement, in order to raise income and status of the said colony, dutch Antilles, territory of the West Indies. Still of great value. Published by command of the Association Cultuur, former students to [dutch] Govenment Institute of Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry at Wageningen, the Netherlands. Good copy. (boards a bit dusty, foxing to verso of ti.-p.).

Keywords: curaçao agriculture assessment report recommendations improvement economy status export trade history antilles west indies colonialism finance economy