plantation

You might as well suggest moving a Banana plantation from Honduras to Montana to save on shipping costs.

Planting hevea plantation in mountain areas of Malaysia is one thing, planting oaks in Kazakhstan is another.

Back in the day, if you had a tomato plantation, you would need to hire staff to perform the harvest.

A slave in a US plantation who refused to work would be whipped to death.

I assume though that a palm oil plantation is quite a bit more valuable than a wheat field.....

All of the plantation workers lost their jobs and had to find new work.

If a plantation did not buy a harvester, they would be undercut by the farms using one and would go out of business.

Have you ever visited a coffee plantation, or a coffee processing plant?

It would take hundreds of staff to harvest a large plantation.

The realization that many plantation slaves would be better utilized as doctors and lawyers did not free the slaves, nor did economic competition from non-slaveholding plantations.

If you're running a plantation or a coal mine, the work is physically difficult and the rewards are minimal, so you have to be either (a) generous or (b) brutal in order to get people to work.

Where I live the management companies are watering the decoration plantation every day regardless if it was raining the previous day or not.

But Southerners (at least those with slaves) generally defended slavery as an institution and equated the plantation system with the "Southern way of life".

But I think there's probably a difference (aesthetically, if nothing else) between a healthy "natural" forest ecosystem and a plantation all of the same type of tree.

"Wall Street" type jobs make a great example here: say you earn $1M in a year by, say, funding expansive oil palm plantation development in southeast asian peat swamps.

Plantation owners used to work their slaves from dawn till dusk for nothing.

For the past two summers, I've interned with Motorola Solutions at there facility in Plantation, Florida.