plantations
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Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Now Beijing is seeking to boost its homegrown produce, with more than 3,000 hectares of plantations on the southern island province of Hainan, which has a similar climate to northern Vietnam.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the islands depended first on sugar plantations and then the pineapple industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
To understand the slavery that brought Africans to the New World, you must begin with the death rate on the sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
