Plantation economy
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plantation-economy-171-2800823
title:
Plantation economy
text:
A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or slaves. The properties are called plantations. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income. Prominent crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, Red Sandalwood, and species in the genus Indigofera, used to produce indigo dye. The longer a crop's harvest period, the more efficient p
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Economy based on agricultural mass production
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_economy
date created:
2005-03-26T22:39:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T10:25:57Z
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