Editing Plantation (section)

==By crop==

=== Tree plantations ===
{{Main|Tree plantation}}

Tree plantations, in the United States often called [[tree farm]]s, are established for the commercial production of timber or tree products such as [[palm oil]], [[coffee]], or [[rubber]]. 

[[Teak]] and bamboo plantations in India have given good results and an alternative crop solution to farmers of central India, where conventional farming was widespread. But due to the rising input costs of agriculture, many farmers have done teak and bamboo plantations, which require very little water (only during the first two years). Teak and bamboo have legal protection from theft. Bamboo, once planted, gives output for 50 years till flowering occurs. Teak requires 20 years to grow to full maturity and fetch returns.

These may be established for watershed or soil protection. They are established for erosion control, landslide stabilization, and windbreaks. Such plantations are established to foster native species and promote forest regeneration on degraded lands as a tool of [[environmental restoration]].

[[File:Sugar cane workers resting 1a34016v.jpg|thumb|Sugar cane workers in [[Puerto Rico]], 1941]]

===Sugar===
{{Main|Sugar plantations in the Caribbean}}
Sugar plantations were highly valued in the Caribbean by the British and French colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the use of sugar in Europe rose during this period. Sugarcane is still an important crop in Cuba. Sugar plantations also arose in countries such as Barbados and Cuba because of the natural endowments that they had. These natural endowments included soil conducive to growing sugar and a high marginal product of labor realized through the increasing number of enslaved people.

===Rubber===
[[File:Cuba canna da zucchero.jpg|thumb|[[Sugarcane]] plantation in rural [[Cuba]]]]
Plantings of the Pará rubber tree (''[[Hevea brasiliensis]]'') are usually called plantations.

===Oil palm plants===
[[Oil palm]] agriculture rapidly expands across wet tropical regions and is usually developed at a plantation scale.

===Orchards===
Fruit [[orchard]]s are plantations of woody trees of fruits or nuts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Defining Orchards (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/historic-orchard-and-fruit-tree-definitions.htm |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref>

===Arable crops===
These include [[tobacco]], [[sugarcane]], [[pineapple]], [[bell pepper]], and [[cotton]], especially in historical usage.

Before the rise of cotton in the American South, [[Indigo dye|indigo]] and [[rice]] were also sometimes called plantation crops.
[[File:Harvesting tea in Bogor, West Java.jpg|thumb|Harvesting tea in Bogor, West Java]]