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What is plantation agriculture? Name the plantation crops.

Plantation agriculture is a form of commercial farming in which involves a heavy capital and focus on cash crops like tea, coffee, and rubber, cotton, sugarcane, cocoa, sisal, oilseeds, palms, and fruit, etc. Large lands are needed for this type of agriculture. Plantation agriculture is mainly found in countries which have a tropical climate like Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, tropical and sub-tropical America.


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