Team/ Country name: Halaysia Team members: Theresa : Priscilla : Priscilla : Lora : Lora : Damien : Damien

Content page  Meaning of agriculture  About plantation agriculture  Slavery  Workers  Pinpoints of plantation agriculture(3pages)  Palm Oil  Rubber  Bibliography (4 pages)  Image sources

Agriculture  Agriculture is either raring livestock and/or planting crops.  There are 2 type of agriculture, commercial agriculture and subsistence agriculture.  Commercial agriculture: Planting crops for business  Subsistence agriculture: Planting crops for self supply.

Slavery  In the past, immigrants were brought overseas to be sold as slaves for farming.  Slavery is no longer used now, in fact slavery is now illegal.  Slavery was very common around the 18 hundreds.  Slavery was not as critical or serious until there was “black” slavery which then led to people thinking of racial discrimination.

Workers usually live on plantation Strict separation of labor and management Two-class society—wealthy and the poor

Plantation agriculture  A commercial agricultural system  Also known as Cash crops  Usually sold overseas  Privately or government owned  Employs local workers  Also managed by global corporations  Needs a large labour force

Plantation agriculture  Found in tropical regions  Involve one or two main crops grown over a large area  Large plantations: -Produce more crops -An advantage for buying fertilizers and insect repellents -An advantage in organising research, processing and transport

Plantation agriculture  Played a key role in the economies of European settlements  Workers at that time was often poorly paid and sometimes they have to work and be treated like slaves  Slaves were the earliest workers for plantation farming

DID YOU KNOW??? Oil from the fruit of palm is used in cosmetics, soap and cooking. Oil Palm originally is native from Africa Sri Lanka produces approximately over 10 million kilos per year. Malaysia now produces over HALF of the Earth’s oil palm

DID YOU KNOW? Rubber plantation are always normally in Malaysia. Rubber are used in erasers, tires, chewing gum etc.

Bibliography  Serving Sri Lanka: Plantation agriculture needs consistency in growth [online] available from: 03/platationagriculture-needs.html Accessed on October 17, /platationagriculture-needs.html 03/platationagriculture-needs.html We learnt about tea, rubber and palm oil plantation in this website. We learnt more about the tropics the crops are from and the amount of crops grown.

More of bibliography  tes/plantati.htm Accessed on 24 October,2007- Information on selling slaves for workforce on farms. Copyrighted by Jim Jones tes/plantati.htm tes/plantati.htm

More of Bibliography  The Blue marble 2 by Raymond Pask, M C Clarke, N E S Lee Page Meaning of Plantation Agriculture, consistency and commercial farming.  We learnt about the general information about plantation agriculture.

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QUIZ 1.Is plantation agriculture mainly owned by the government and big companies or farmers? 2.Does it require a large labor force or a small labor force? 3.Who were the earliest workers in plantation? 4.Slavery is commonly around how many people? 5.Which country produces half of the Earth’s palm oil?