0 a large farm, especially in a hot part of the world, on which a particular type of crop is grown: --
1 a large farm, esp. in a hot part of the world, on which a particular crop is grown: --
First, they were a heritage of the coerced labour systems of the sugar plantations which produced a historical norm of low wages.
Improved cane-supply conditions in turn depend upon the renovation of plantations with new sowings and the restoration of an appropriate agestructure of ratoons.
As a result, the proportion of higher-yielding plant cane and young ratoons declined and the average age of plantations rose.
Brazilian planters were in place on their plantations either the whole year or during a good part of it.
There was damage to plantations caused by the operation of heavy harvesting machinery in wet conditions.
Over time, the lack of fertiliser impacted with increasing severity on the yields of plantations already suffering from the effects of fuel shortages.
When plantations and fenced areas are reopened, though, all too often household use-pressure results in renewed degradation.
Cotton and indigo plantations flourished in the early nineteenth century.
