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...The FT reported in August that CVC was exploring a sale of the plantations....
...About 1 per cent of the commercial timber plantation is set aside to regrow native species....
...It was brought to the then Dutch East Indies by 19th-century European colonists and grown in plantations worked by indentured and forced labour shipped in from around the region....
...This means growers do not directly benefit from ballooning futures prices, reducing their incentive to invest in their plantations in order to boost yields....
...Years of low prices have meant cash-strapped farmers have been unable to invest in improving ageing plantations....
...Corporate results: Casino group Sands China, Japanese tyre-maker Bridgestone Corporation and Malaysian palm oil producer Sime Darby Plantation are scheduled to release results....
...In the tropics we have very extensive palm oil plantations, and also pulpwood plantations, fast-growing acacia plantations where the timber is used for paper production....
...For example, in response to the DR, coffee importers are reported to have no choice but to shift from Ethiopian household coffee growers to Brazilian plantations, which already have full traceability....
...Swollen shoot virus, transmitted by mealybugs, has spread throughout the region’s cocoa plantations. The only remedy for it is to rip the trees out....
...Meanwhile, the island’s countryside was reshaped into identikit sugar plantations, characterised by a harrowing plantation economy where African slaves were gibbeted, raped, castrated, branded, dismembered...
...as a result, said Dickson Sang, secretary of the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers’ Union in Kericho County....
...Meanwhile, across the now-redundant plantations, everything that could be useful to these formerly enslaved people has been taken, “except the receipts of payment for the purchased slaves”....
...At Merapoh, a lonely jungle halt in the Taman Negara national park, I pick the option of an e-bike ride to a pair of deep caves, gliding through soupy heat and rubber plantations to the foot of a towering...
...The lab-grown alternatives are healthier than plantation-derived palm oil, Kelleher says, because they don’t contain harmful bleaching agents — and can be modified to contain less saturated fat than plantation-derived...
...Decades of low prices have left cash-strapped west African farmers unable to invest in their plantations....
...It’s narrated by Annis, a woman in her late teens or early twenties, who is born into slavery on a Carolinas rice plantation in the mid-19th century....
...Two hours east of Sorriso through vast, flat soy plantations, Boa Esperança is beginning to experience its boom....
...Take the several renderings that Francis Guy painted of the Gough family’s idyllic Baltimore plantation, Perry Hall, in the mid-1790s....
...The painting isn’t an allegory, but it does evoke the flight of a plantation slave heading north, or a Jewish person on the run from the Gestapo....
...Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau was the wealthy grandchild of plantation owners from Louisiana....
...A final section on plantations highlights their role in producing scientific knowledge....
...Clunies-Ross established coconut plantations....
...The cost and difficulty of complying with the deforestation regulation, for example, means large palm oil plantations are likely to displace smallholder farmers in exporting to the lucrative EU market....
...Those advances are on display at its 250,000 square foot headquarters in Plantation, Florida, which sits atop five factories where core parts of the manufacturing process are completely automated....
...When my grandfather came from Italy and owned the place, it was used as a coffee plantation. Then, when he died, my father left it as it was....
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