Plantation

A plantation is a large piece of land (or water) usually in a tropical or semitropical area where one crop is specifically planted for widespread commercial sale and usually tended by resident laborers. The crops grown include fast-growing trees (often conifers), cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds (e.g. oil palms), rubber trees, and various fruits. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations were located.

Among the earliest examples of plantations were the latifundia of the Roman Empire, which produced large quantities of wine and olive oil for export. Plantation agriculture grew rapidly with the increase in international trade and the development of a worldwide economy that followed the expansion of European colonial empires. Like every economic activity, it has changed over time. Earlier forms of plantation agriculture were associated with large disparities of wealth and income, foreign ownership and political influence, and exploitative social systems such as indentured labour and slavery.

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Wardha Farmer Reaps 24 Quintal Cotton Per Acre Through HDPS

The Times of India 22 Jan 2025
Dilip Pohane, a farmer from Hinganghat in Wardha district, reaped a record breaking 24 quintals of raw cotton per acre in his fields using the high-density plantation system (HDPS) ... HDPS plantation.
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A picturesque Georgia island with a violent history of racial injustice

The Hill 21 Jan 2025
Roads pass beneath live oak-tree canopies, draped with Spanish moss, linking affluent housing developments — some called, seemingly without embarrassment, “plantations.” ... Sherman divided the abandoned Sea Islands plantations among former slaves.
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Why the morbidly rich were really front and center at Trump's inauguration

Raw Story 21 Jan 2025
... up to the Civil War they were called the “Cotton Lords” and “Plantation Aristocracy.” The late 19th century labeled them “Robber Barons,” and in the 1930s FDR condemned them as “Economic Royalists.”.
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Why the morbidly rich were front and center at Trump's inauguration

Alternet 20 Jan 2025
... up to the Civil War they were called the “Cotton Lords” and “Plantation Aristocracy.” The late 19th century labeled them “Robber Barons,” and in the 1930s FDR condemned them as “Economic Royalists.”.
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Brown Brothers Harriman’s slavery links exposed by Liverpool campaign

The Observer 19 Jan 2025
... 2015 book Empire of Cotton, which described how “the Browns of New York came to own at least 13 plantations” in the 1840s, “along with hundreds of slaves”, and Zachary Karabell’s Inside Money.
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ProPublica 18 Jan 2025
by Jennifer Berry Hawes ... That community was 45 minutes to the south in Wilcox County, where I found people starkly divided by race, as they had been since the days when plantation operators hauled enslaved workers to the region to grow cotton ... .
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Krahô women lead Indigenous guard to protect territory in Brazil

Mongabay 14 Jan 2025
It is under immense pressure from loggers, hunters, agribusiness and charcoal factories. Krahô peoples’ waters have become contaminated by pesticides applied to soybean and cotton plantations nearby ... But nowadays I see changes.
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How Dinosaurs Changed American Identity

Time 14 Jan 2025
White planters moving into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—the “Cotton Kingdom”—were searching for fertile soils. They hired geologists, who scoured the rivers and plantations for the richest ground.
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Justice Department investigating Douglas County School District’s response to racial discrimination, bullying of students

Daily Camera 11 Jan 2025
Investigators from the U.S ... The students faced racist taunting by their peers, including being told to “go back to the plantation, you cotton-picking monkey,” the lawsuit alleged ... “It is time to revisit these practices ... Share this. ... .
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Dr. Strangelove’s America: Donald Trump and the Age of Insurrection

The Village Voice 09 Jan 2025
... their names), told the recipients that they’d been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and that “our executive slave catchers will pick you up in a brown van” on a specified date.
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ENGLISH DIGEST 實用美語(空中美語)

Taipei Times 07 Jan 2025
By《空中美語》 編輯群 ... For instance, Ghana has secured a $200 million loan from the World Bank to restore cocoa plantations affected by disease and return them to farmers ... 1 ... plantation n ... Long ago, slaves worked on plantations in the US, usually picking cotton ... .
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President Biden awards nation's highest civilian honor to Mississippi-native Fannie Lou Hamer

Clarionledger 07 Jan 2025
The Delta native is the 11th Mississippian to receive the honor since 1964 ... Hamer died at the age of 59 on March 14, 1977 ... "Mrs ... The couple labored on a cotton plantation near Ruleville, a city in Sunflower County roughly 120 miles northwest of Jackson.
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Cotton production plunges over 33pc

Dawn 04 Jan 2025
While seeking input from the stakeholders to devise a final crop plan, the meeting pledged to allow the plantation of only approved varieties and the lands vacated after harvesting oilseed crops would also be utilised for early cotton cultivation.
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The Blues Highway: A legendary road trip from Clarksdale to Memphis

Canada Dot Com 03 Jan 2025
In the silence, I imagine those who performed at this cotton plantation, isolated, so they wouldn’t be run out of town ... .
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Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, at Almeida Theatre

Islington Tribune 02 Jan 2025
... Big Daddy (Lennie James) a wealthy plantation owner ... We learn Big Daddy was an overseer before he took on the cotton plantation and his ruthlessness is quickly revealed in the compelling central act.

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