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Plantation horticulture is an important part of the economic landscape of many tropical countries. Plantations were developed in association with colonial expansion and the original models were based on the production of monocrops which had a ready export market, using cheap or slave labour. Plantations in the twenty first Century are less likely environments for exploitation of human and environmental capital. They are however, linked to crop production on a large scale for produce to be sold, at profit, for export to distant markets rather than local sale. A range of crops can be broadly categorized into plantation crops. Plantations continue to be effective models for efficient agricultural production and will evolve in response to the continued demand for food, fruit, fibre, oil crops and timber from a growing population.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following; Dr Russ Stevenson, the late Dr David Aldous and Dr Geoff Dixon for their editorial comment, the Mackay family for contribution of photographs of their banana plantation, Dr. Rob Lockwood for personal communications on cocoa production in Africa and Macadamia Farm Management for supply of photographs of Macadamia plantations and machinery.

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  1. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Centre for Wet Tropics Agriculture, PO Box 20, 4859, South Johnstone, Queensland, Australia

    Yan Diczbalis & Jeff Daniells

  2. Cocoa Sustainability Research Manager Asia/Pacific, Mars Chocolate Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

    Smilja Lambert

  3. Suncoast Gold Macadamias, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

    Chris Searle

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Diczbalis, Y., Daniells, J., Lambert, S., Searle, C. (2014). Plantation Crops. In: Dixon, G., Aldous, D. (eds) Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8578-5_8

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