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What is plantation agriculture ? Mention its 4 features |
| Answer» Plantation: a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.1. crops are generally raised on large estates of more than 40 hectares.ii. It refers to the large scale, capitalised and often highly centralised cultivation in the plantations of cash crops for export.iii. Estate farming is an outstanding feature of plantation agriculture. Most estates have foreign ownership but the labour employed is local. The largest estates are owned by the Europeans.iv. The Malaysian rubber plantations are owned by Europeans while the tapping and processing of the rubber is done entirely by local people or by immigrant labourers from southern India. | |