Plantations

Women workers on tea plantations have rarely moved up the career ladder and mostly remained as wage workers for their entire working life since the inception of the tea plantations.

I mean, corporations are plantations, all companies, all not for profits, all businesses are plantations.

New research has found preparing land for palm oil plantations and the growth of young plants causes significantly more damage to the environment, emitting double the amount of greenhouse gases than mature plantations.

At a government hill station on the edge of palm plantations in rural Bengkulu, 12 tame Sumatran elephants — former circus performers — have been recruited into a “flying squadron” to chase wild elephants away from palm oil plantations or villages.

Malaysia’s durian plantations covered 72,000 hectares last year but the area under cultivation is growing, the department said, and in some areas plantations growing palm oil are switching to durian because it is seen as more lucrative.

Forest plantations Forest plantations, generally intended for the production of timber and pulpwood increase the total area of forest worldwide.

Forest plantations To meet the world's demand for wood, it has been suggested by forestry writers Botkins and Sedjo that high-yielding forest plantations are suitable.

For transplant stock, strip plantations had a significantly higher volume (329 cm³) than open plantations (204 cm³).

French colonists drove most of the Caribs off the island and established plantations on the island, eventually importing African slaves to work on the sugar plantations.

It almost succeeded, had it not been for Brown's delay, and hundreds of slaves left their plantations to join Brown's force - and others left their plantations to join Brown in an escape to the mountains.

It was of economic importance in the export-oriented tobacco plantations of Virginia and Maryland, and the rice and indigo plantations of South Carolina.

Morrissey (1989), Slave Women in the New World, p. 89. Colonial laws European plantations required laws to regulate the plantation system and the many slaves imported to work on the plantations.

White spruce open plantations also had smaller volume than white spruce sheltered plantations.

After the end of the apprenticeship, the freed Africans started buying plantations in each of the three counties of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, and converted them into villages.

As cultures blended in the early 19th century, a number of Cherokee assimilated into the white settler culture: putting up English-style housing, adopting white settler farming techniques, and in some cases establishing plantations.

CHEP Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a forestry portfolio of 18 pine-timber farms in South Africa covering an area in excess of 7 500ha of standing pine plantations.

Coffee producers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are adapting to climate change by restoring their coffee plantations in agroforestry systems.

Fertilizer run-off from the sugar plantations around the lake feeds the bloom.

Getting easements from the neighboring Friendfield and Silver Hill plantations will be crucial, as the ditches along Graves Station Street and near New Light Baptist are closely bordered by land owned by each plantation.

Hawaii also has lost large plantations and ranches, with fire-prone grasses overtaking fallow lands, he said.