Plantation agriculture: A large-scale commercial farming operation specializing in one or two cash crops for export, historically reliant on forced or low-wage labor.
How to apply it: Use plantation agriculture to explain the spatial legacy of colonial production of sugar, cotton, coffee, and rubber.
Course: AP Human Geography · Unit: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
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