Describe the features of plantation agriculture.
Plantation is a type of commercial farming. It is known as bush or tree farming. It is a single crop farming because a single crop is grown on a large area. It is a capital intensive agriculture. The produce is used as raw material in respective industries. It needs good managerial ability, technical know-how, sophisticated machinery, fertilisers, irrigation, transport facilities and communication network. Tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana are important plantation crops. Some plantations like tea, coffee and rubber have a processing factory within the farm itself or close to it. Since the production is mainly for the market, a well-developed network of transport and communication is necessary to connect the plantation areas, processing industries and markets in the development of plantations. Tea is an important plantation crop in Assam and North Bengal while coffee is grown in Karnataka.
