Collocations with plantation
These are words often used in combination with plantation.
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banana plantation
Based upon interviews with local residents, it is known that the sampled area was cleared of forest and converted to a banana plantation around the turn of the century.
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cocoa plantation
Sometimes seven or eight years pass before a rubber estate or a cocoa plantation begins to produce.
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coffee plantation
Life-table data were colleted from insecticide-free plots within a 3 ha coffee plantation on the upper, medium and lower canopy.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
cotton plantation
Once again, he returned to the family cotton plantation.
large plantation
Such certifications in general can offer coffee growers (large plantation owners as well as small-scale farmers) significant economic benefits through higher prices.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
oil palm plantation
There were more understorey beetles in the acacia plantation, which has more ground cover, compared with the oil palm plantation (see figs 4 and 8b).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
oil plantation
At the same time, it is still discussing, even today, the possibility of starting financing for programmes for palm oil plantations.
plantation agriculture
Overvalued exchange rates, lack of funds to invest in parastatal agriculture and weak international prices caused plantation agriculture and timber production to stagnate.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
plantation economy
In the north the use of forced labour was central to sustaining the plantation economy : here differentiation took different forms but was no less pronounced.
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plantation house
She educated herself, and opened a private school in a spare bedroom of the plantation house.
plantation owner
However, after this the tenant had to pay for the coming year's staples, thus keeping him permanently indebted to plantation owner.
rice plantation
Traditionally the king had a duty to perform a religious ceremony blessing the rice plantation.
rubber plantation
The oil palm plantation has become the largest sector in terms of area after it surpassed the rubber plantation sector in 1997.
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sugar cane plantation
In the 19th century this became an important coffee producing region as well as a sugar cane plantation during prior centuries.
sugar plantation
He was a shareholder of a bank and of a number of different companies and in 1871 he bought a large sugar plantation.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
tea plantation
The annual mean rainfall was 3869 mm, recorded at the office of a tea plantation near the study site during 1998 to 2002.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
tobacco plantation
Ran a tobacco plantation and had a reputation as a breeder of high-quality dogs.
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