Question

What is plantation agriculture?
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Answer 1

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Explanation:

Plantation agriculture is defined as the production of commodity crops in large-scale agribusiness organizations termed plantations which have a strict bureaucratic internal structure.

Answer 2

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a. Plantation farming is bush or tree farming

b. The British introduced it in the nineteenth century.

c. It is a single crop farming of rubber, tea, coffee, cocoa, spices, coconut and fruits like apples, grapes, oranges etc.

d. It is capital intensive and demands good managerial ability, technical know-how, sophisticated machinery, fertilizers, irrigation and transport facilities.

e. Some of the plantations like tea, coffee, rubber have a processing factory within the farm itself or close to it.

f. This type of agriculture has developed in hilly areas of north- eastern India, sub-Himalayan, West Bengal and in Nilgiri, Anamalai and Cardamom hills in peninsular India.