Plantations
A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations are located. Among the earliest examples of plantations were the latifundia of the Roman Empire, which produced large quantities of grain, wine and olive oil for export. Plantation agriculture grew rapidly with the increase in international trade and the development of a worldwide …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
of workers would be needed to work on the tea plantations, which meant getting them from outside Assam … steamer from Calcutta to Assam to work on tea plantations. So the tea companies kept pressuring the authorities …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
the Indian subcontinent, there are also tea plantations in, among other places, China (of course), Japan … Chhotanagpur—they worked for the owners of tea plantations. It wasn’t difficult for the sardars to find … mines of Bihar, and the sugarcane and cotton plantations in countries across the ocean. All of these … managers were the owners, the heads of the tea plantations. The owners were intent on making quick profits … men were given different tasks. When the tea plantations were being set up, it was the men who took care …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) is a periodic, national-level examination of the distribution range and abundance trends of Indian birds that aids in formulating conservation plans. The SoIB last …
habitats created and shaped by humans, such as plantations, agricultural fields, open fallow land, and … but Greater Flameback can survive even in old plantations (see Woodpeckers, p46). In good news, generalist … Birds that are woodland specialists (forests or plantations) have also declined more than generalists, indicating … had a history of neglect and conversion into plantations or ‘forests’ that have been more valued. 33 CONSERVATION … been converted to shrimp farms and mangrove plantations. In many wintering sites, illegal killing of …
LC: Library of Congress · 2023 English
"LL File No. 2023-022255." "June 2023." "Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, …
granted to state land for the development of plantations and can be granted to foreign companies. The …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 December 2022 English
The 25-year-old musician sings about an inclusive Assam in the jhumur style of music, accompanied by the madol, jhumur dhol and flute
Chhattisgarh and Telangana – to work in the tea plantations of Assam. The Adivasi groups went on to intermingle …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 December 2022 English
This report was published by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India on December 14, 2022. It presents the status of various ongoing and upcoming schemes for …
de- oiled cakes and wood from dedicated energy plantations for power generation. A scheme to support promotion …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 June 2022 English
The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) developed by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) is an index that measures particulate air pollution by a very significant …
set illegally to clear land for agricultural plantations—tighter fuel emissions standards offer another …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2022 English
The State of World Forests 2022 was published by Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations. It studies “forest pathways for green recovery and building inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies” and …
environmentally appropriate establishment of tree plantations, improving the use of residues from wood harvesting … invests USD 1.5 billion–2 billion per year in plantations and USD 6.5 billion in wood processing in Africa … definition excludes plantations of agricultural tree crops (such as oil-palm plantations and orchards) as … types of planted forests (including rubber plantations).3 Nevertheless, many technical and scientific … agricultural croplands and grasslands, forest plantations and other non-native forest, peri-urban lands …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2022 English
Seasonal and circular migrants are those who either move from place to place or to specific destinations for temporary periods. In India, seasonal migration is the primary mode of labour …
to other states also as well as & Nepal. C. Plantations and Private farms of Tea, Cof- fee, Cardamom …
LC: Library of Congress · 2022 English
Cover title. "This publication has been made possible in part by generous funding from USAID"--Page 2. Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-53). System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Description based on online …
review. T7.3 Plantations Biome Intensive land-use (T7) Functional group Plantations (T7.3) Description: … Description: Plantations (T7.3) are ecosystems dominated by long-rotation woody vegetation that are harvested … Thupalli, 2009; UNEP, 1986; Van Driessche, 2018). Plantations are present across the Maldives and vary greatly … Baresdhoo and B. Maarikilu, where single species plantations of coconut palms occur (Kan et al., 2007). Threats … targeted management intervention. Additionally, plantations have not been addressed in any IUCN Red List …
