Question

Prove how tea cultivation satisfies the characteristics of the plantation farming.”

Answer 1

Tea cultivation qualifies as a plantation cultivation for these reasons:

1. Tea is grown over large tracts of land and requires capital intensive inputs and migrant labourers.

2. It is a single crop grown over a large area.

3. It has industry interface meaning tea leaves have to be processed at the plantation to retain freshness and hence capital intensive crop.

All these are the characteristics of plantation farming and thus tea cultivation comes under plantation cultivation.