Intensive Subsistence Agriculture, Commercial Farming, and Its Classification as Plantation and Extensive Agriculture
Define planta...
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Define plantation agricultural. Explain any five characteristics of plantation agricultural.
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Plantation agriculture is a type of commercial farming. A single crop is grown in very large area. All the produce is used as raw material for industries. In India, tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana are some of the crops grown in plantation agriculture. Some of the states which grow plantation crops are Assam and Karnataka.
The five characteristics of Plantation Agriculture are:
A single crop is grown in Plantation Agriculture.
Plantation crops are grown in large areas.
Large amount of labour is required in plantation agriculture.
The amount of capital invested is huge.
All the produce is used as raw material for the industries.