Portuguese mariners established plantations in the Atlantic islands to meet European demand for what commodity sugar plantations.
A plantation is an agricultural estate designed for farming that specializes in income crops. It is often centered on a plantation house and is mostly planted with one crop, with possibly peripheral areas for growing vegetables for eating and other things. The following crops are grown: cotton, coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees, and forest trees. Geographical placement of plantations has occasionally been influenced by protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage. Before about 1800, the term "farm" was commonly used to describe any size of farm in the southern regions of British North America. However, in modern usage, the term is typically understood to only refer to large estates, as noted by Noah Webster, with "farm" becoming the standard term for all farms.
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