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benefits and problems of estate farming

Answer 1

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Local economy may badly suffer following retrenchment of labour; unemployment may increase. (g) Plantation farming is not good for ecology. Over-exploitation and absence of crop-rotation depletes soil fertility and increases soil erosion.

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Answer 2

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1. The entrepreneurs inject substantial capital to the moribund, under-developed economy that converts it into a vibrant, dynamic economy.

2. Product of the plantation farming is totally dependent on international market. The slightest price fluctuation in the international market may jeopardize the sys­tem.

3. As it is totally export-oriented, the net volume and value of national export in­creases, adding valuable foreign exchequer to the national exchequer.

4. It absorbs thousands of labourers, reducing the growing unemployment prob­lem.

5. Plantation farming is a complex mechanism; it involves creation of not only in­dustrial plants but also construction of civic amenities like roads, housing projects, schools, colleges, hospitals, administrative projects etc. Eventually, urbanization rate is accelerated.

Disadvantages of Plantation Farming:

Plantation farming, despite its several merits, is not flawless. Sometimes, it adversely af­fects regional economy as:

(a) It is not a spontaneous occurrence, rather, it has been developed by outsiders. So, interest of the local inhabitants are not sustained in the long run.

(b) It produces only one product—tea, coffee etc. —which is sold in the external mar­ket. So, the local people suffer from food shortages that might have been culti­vated.

(c) Exodus of money in the form of profit goes to foreign lands which in no way improves the local economy.

(d) In most of the cases cheap labourers are collected from outside and technical ex­pertise from faraway lands. This system fails to deliver any good to the local unemployment scenario and aggravates social tension. Sons of soil clash with outsiders.

(e) Planters, to expand their business, try to grab the land of farmers in several ways. This creates more and more landless, uprooted people.

(f) Due to dependence on international market for the sale of the product, any price and demand fluctuation may have catastrophic result in the farming. Local economy may badly suffer following retrenchment of labour; unemployment may increase.

(g) Plantation farming is not good for ecology. Over-exploitation and absence of crop-rotation depletes soil fertility and increases soil erosion.

(h) As most of the owners of plantation estates reside outside the country—particu­larly at the initial stage of development—they have very little interest in the de­velopment of the region.

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