plantations

Example Sentences

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In order to ship coffee to Europe, Vietnamese and Brazilian suppliers will soon have to supply the GPS coordinates of their plantations.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Cases under investigation include pastures declared on archaeological sites, olive trees in a military airport and banana plantations on Mount Olympus.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Brazil’s coffee-growing monoculture left much of the country dependent on imported food, particularly white flour from the slave-worked mills of Richmond, which in turn encouraged the development of new capital-intensive wheat plantations in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

In Sister Julianna’s company, on tours of North Carolina tobacco plantations, Farmer met a number of Haitians.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French