plantation agriculture
Large-scale crop cultivation
Plantation agriculture is large-scale farming devoted to a single cash crop—cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, rubber—typically for export.
The system historically depended on enslaved or indentured labor and concentrated land ownership among a wealthy few.
Plantation agriculture shaped the economy of the antebellum South.
The term now describes any monoculture operation on this scale, though it carries colonial overtones.
- coffeeBrewed bean beverage
- export economyWealth through foreign sales
- indentured laborWork obligation bound by contract
- field handsAgricultural manual laborers
- teaSteeped leaf beverage
cash crops · cash crop · colonialism · slavery · slave labor · sugarcane · sugar cane fields · deforestation · rubber · mechanization · imperialism · colonial masters · sharecropping · economic exploitation · hacienda · migrant workers · forced migration · commodity markets
plantation agriculturesubsistence farming
Growing food for household
subsistence agriculture · peasant farming · smallholder farming · family farming · homesteading
plantation agriculturecommunal farming
Shared agricultural land system
cooperative farming · family-owned farms · collective farming
plantation agriculturepolyculture
Multi-species crop system
mixed farming · agroforestry · permaculture · intercropping · traditional farming
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