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Introduction
Plantation system has taken up to all parts of the tropical world and has been used to grow a variety of crops, including the cotton, rubber, palm oil, tobacco and coffee.
Plantation agriculture is a highly specialised system of farming. A plantation is extremely large covering thousands of hectares and run by a big company often foreign, such plantations have certain things in common.
They concentrate on the growing of cash crops, usually destined for markets outside the country of origin.
Subsistence crops will be grown only on small scale to feed the work force.
In most cases labour is hired and usually brought from a considerable distance due to local scarcity.
As the cost of labour increased, it became more important to use i.e. efficiently, so much so that crops were chosen to provide employment throughout the year.
Many plantations increase their output by buying local produce. This is done by encouraging the existence of outgrowers.
The plantation management provides housing, food, medical care and sometimes elementary education.
The companies normally pay high taxes to the government. They also promote a better social infrastructure which benefits the local people of the area.
Factories are often set up and provide local employment, and bulk hand long facilities at export ports are often financed by plantation companies.
The crops are those from which the greatest benefits accrue if they are grown on a massive scale; and which undergo a considerable degree of processing on the plantation by means of extremely expensive machinery. In fact if these crops were not grown and produced on a huge scale the world might not be able to consume such large quantities.
Plantation agriculture is a highly specialised system of farming. A plantation is extremely large covering thousands of hectares and run by a big company often foreign, such plantations have certain things in common.
They concentrate on the growing of cash crops, usually destined for markets outside the country of origin.
Subsistence crops will be grown only on small scale to feed the work force.
In most cases labour is hired and usually brought from a considerable distance due to local scarcity.
As the cost of labour increased, it became more important to use i.e. efficiently, so much so that crops were chosen to provide employment throughout the year.
Many plantations increase their output by buying local produce. This is done by encouraging the existence of outgrowers.
The plantation management provides housing, food, medical care and sometimes elementary education.
The companies normally pay high taxes to the government. They also promote a better social infrastructure which benefits the local people of the area.
Factories are often set up and provide local employment, and bulk hand long facilities at export ports are often financed by plantation companies.
The crops are those from which the greatest benefits accrue if they are grown on a massive scale; and which undergo a considerable degree of processing on the plantation by means of extremely expensive machinery. In fact if these crops were not grown and produced on a huge scale the world might not be able to consume such large quantities.