Video: Plantation Crops Video Lecture | Geography for UPSC CSE

plantation agriculture
in this module you will learn about
plantation agriculture plantation
agriculture refers to the cultivation of
cash crops on a large scale mostly in
tropical regions plantation agriculture
is a specialized economic activity it
involves the growing and processing of a
single cash crop solely for the purpose
of sale in the market these cash crops
are grown on large estates or
plantations plantation is done manually
especially by dilling planting and
harvesting garage machines are used only
to break and prepare the soil auto
transport product plantation agriculture
began during the colonial period later
during the industrial revolution Western
Europe required tropical and
sub-tropical agricultural Goods as raw
material on a large scale for their
factories in this way the Europeans
began setting up plantations in their
colonies in the 19th century plantation
agriculture was introduced by the
British in India plantations were
restricted in narrow areas of the
tropics along the Seacoast and errors
that were served by railways roads or
navigable rivers the plantation crops
that are cultivated mainly in India are
rubber tea coffee spices coconuts and
bananas plantation agriculture is mainly
practiced in the nilgiris anomoly hills
and cardamom hills in South India a SEM
and sub-e Mullen area in West Bengal
plantation agriculture has a number of
characteristic features the sole purpose
of plantation agriculture is to produce
high yields high-quality and large
output most of which is exported wante
agriculture requires huge capital the
farms are large and situated in thinly
populated areas in the tropical and
subtropical region the success of
plantations depends on the exploitation
of cheap labor labor is brought from
different places and they are provided
with living accommodation food
educational and medical facilities
earlier the technical and managerial
staff of the plantation used to be from
the European countries but now Indians
are employed almost all the crops
produced in the plantations are
processed before they are sent or sale
in the market farming is done with
specialized skill and wherever possible
with the application of machinery and
fertilizers annual crops are less fitted
for such agriculture than perennial
trees and bushes like rubber and tea as
they provide better output the other
most important factor in the progress of
plantation agriculture are accessibility
availability of Liebherr difficulties in
clearing vegetation plant diseases loss
of soil fertility and government
policies mostly all plantations
accommodate labour colonies the workers
live in pakka houses they're also
provided with other amenities such as
roads parks schools marketplace primary
health centers and small cinema houses
in some areas workers are also provided
with small plots of land to grow food
crops or vegetables to be used for their
families let us now recap all the
important points that we have covered in
this module on plantation agriculture
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