USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plantation farming is the practice of clearing a large parcel of forest land and planting the desired crops in huge numbers on the cleared land. This type of farming helps in increasing the production of the desired produce and makes it easier to control the cultivation.

Detailed explanation-2: -A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1, 000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km2) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale.

Detailed explanation-3: -Farm size in plantation agriculture is 40 hectares or above. This is large-scale agriculture where only a single crop is cultivated. As plantation agriculture is practised on hilly tracks, using machines is impossible.

Detailed explanation-4: -A plantation is a large estate that grows cash crops. Plantations are associated with the production of coffee, sugarcane, tobacco, tea and cotton.