Sugarcane fields

Landscape shaped by sugarcane farming
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Photograph J. Legros, 1950–1960

Réunion is not known as "Sugar island" for nothing. Sugarcane farming has shaped the island’s low relief plains and continues to do so.

© Private collection Jean Legros (1920–2004), Iconothèque historique de l'océan Indien, Département de La Réunion

© Private collection Jean Legros (1920–2004), Iconothèque historique de l'océan Indien, Département de La Réunion

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