Question

Answer in brief:

What type of crops/plants are grown in plantation
farming? Mention two characteristics of plantation
farming.​

Answer 1

Answer:

A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.

Five characteristics of plantation farming : (i) It is a single crop farming practised on a large area. (ii) Crops are mainly grown for the market. (iii) It is both labour intensive and capital intensive.