Plantation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Plantation


00:01:24 1 Forest plantations
00:03:24 1.1 Growth cycle
00:05:57 1.2 Natural forest loss
00:07:13 1.3 Criticisms of plantations
00:10:16 2 Farm and home
00:11:33 2.1 Ecological impact
00:13:24 2.2 Sugar
00:14:03 2.3 Rubber
00:14:17 2.4 Oil palm
00:14:34 2.5 Orchards
00:14:47 2.6 Arable crops
00:15:10 2.7 Fishing
00:16:35 3 Slavery
00:18:12 4 Antebellum American South
00:21:51 5 See also



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A plantation is the large-scaleestate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, 
coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, rubber trees, and fruits. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations were located.

A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole.  Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, partially due to survivorship bias and the rise of king cotton during the Antebellum South, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
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 labor and slavery.