INTRODUCTION TO FOOD TECHNOLOGY
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY
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Mediterranean
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plantations
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truck/fruit farming
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dairy farming
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Detailed explanation-1: -A plantation is a large-scale farm that usually focuses on the production of a single crop such as tobacco, coffee, tea, sugar cane, rubber, and cotton, to name a few. These forms of farming are commonly found in LDCs but often owned by corporations in MDCs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plantation Agriculture is the form of Agriculture in which a single person or company owns a big farm and grows a single crop (most often corn, wheat, sunflower, cotton, etc.). Plantation agriculture requires capital for modern machinery (especially for seeding and harvesting) and, of course, personnel.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mixed farming. This involves the rearing of livestock and crops together. Plantation agriculture. Sometimes also known as commercial agriculture, plantation farming is about growing a single cash crop for large-scale markets. Subsistence farming. Dry land & wet land farming.