PLANTATION AGRICULTURE IN WEST AND EAST AFRICA

GEOGRAPHY SSS2 THIRD TERM

WEEK – NINE

PLANTATION AGRICULTURE IN WEST AND EAST AFRICA

REFERENCE

Essential Geography for Senior Secondary Schools by O.A. Iwena

PLANTATION AGRICULTURE IN WEST AND EAST AFRICA

Plantation agriculture can be defined as the cultivation of certain crops (usually Cash crops) on a large area of land.

CROPS INVOLVED IN PLANTATION AGRICULTURE

It involves the planting of perennial crops such as Cocoa, Rubber, Oil palm, Tea, Coffee etc.

CHARACTERISTIC OF PLANTATION AGRICULTURE

1. 1. It requires a large area of land.
   2. It requires a large labour force.
   3. It involves the cultivation of one type of Crop only on a piece of land (MONOCULTURE).
   4. Crops produced are mainly exported.
   5. All farm operations are mechanized.
   6. It requires large capital…