"Historic Center of Silay City
Hawaiian-Philippine Company
Victorias Milling Company
Hacienda Santa Rosalia
Balay ni Tana Dicang
Aniceto Lacson Mansion
Historic Center of Iloilo City (Calle Real)
The cultivation of sugar is believed to have originated among the Austronesian peoples in Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea over ten thousand years ago and gradually spread across the world. It returned to the Philippines – thus marking the crop’s circumnavigation of the globe – and began to be cultivated at scale during the Spanish colonial period, primarily on Panay and Negros Islands in the country’s Visayas Region, upon realizing that the climate and fertile soil of the area were favorable for sugarcane cultivation. This cultivation reached an industrial scale in the late 19th century, bringing about significant transformations, leading to migrations of sugar workers to the haciendas on the islands of Panay and Negros, the rise of a prosperous landowning class wielding significant local and national economic and political power, the blending of local cultures and traditions with foreign influences and technologies through international trade.
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