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"There were bad acts that happened on some plantations, but not all plantations," he added.
Like many plantations at the time -- including other plantations owned by presidents -- Mt. Vernon used slave labor.
We can relieve the pressure to convert rainforests to palm plantations in Indonesia and soy plantations in Brazil.
Bornean orangutans, for example, can survive, at least temporarily, in logged forests, Acacia plantations, and oil palm plantations.
Even plantations or areas near plantations can sustain bounties of life — though an expert ear can spot missing species.
When timber companies began replacing native forest with industrial plantations in the 260s, some Mapuche fought back, setting plantations, trucks and machinery ablaze.
It suspended four corporations connected to pulp and paper plantations that were burning crops, and arrested another 70 farmers who owned those plantations.
Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil plantations have largely continued to operate during the coronavirus outbreak, although some districts in Malaysia have closed plantations.
Agricultural camps sell the produce from state-owned plantations and hire out convicts to private plantations and local farms, officials and former inmates said.
Rainforests in Indonesia continue to be converted into human settlements, oil palm plantations, logging concessions, pulp and paper plantations, mines, and other industries that require clearcutting.
At tropical tourist destinations, particularly within the Caribbean, resorts are often built on the sites of former plantations or are, themselves, plantations that have since been converted.
State media reported over 71,000 chickens perished in the storm, and more than 12,000 acres of vegetables and fruit plantations were left severely damaged -- 4,188 of them to banana plantations.
The slaves, who included babies and old people, were sold for $13,000, about $3.3m today, to plantations in Louisiana, where they laboured in dreadful conditions on cotton and sugar plantations.
And, increasingly, foreign-owned plantations: As we ventured in the direction of Snuol, the highway passed rubber and cassava plantations so large that the lines of crops converged at the horizon.
"The priorities of smallholders, in most cases, (are) to put food on the table," said Carl Bek-Nielsen, chief executive director of United Plantations, which has palm plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
JAKARTA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - * Azis Hidayat, chairman of the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) secretariat, said the area covered by ISPO certified plantations will reach 5.5 million hectares by the end of 2019 * Currently there are 5.17 million hectares of ISPO certified plantations, made up of plantations run by 550 companies and 10 cooperatives, Hidayat said.
In Peru, where plantations cover just 0.1 percent of the land, more than 5,000 hectares of natural forest was lost to make way for plantations in the last 15 years, the researchers said.
Genealogists have continued to comb through records in courthouses and archives for the slightest clues about the group, from their lives on the Jesuit plantations in Maryland to the Louisiana plantations and beyond.
The same spirit that sees slave plantations as romantic venues.
Rice, corn and coconut plantations will likely suffer severe losses.
Rice, corn and coconut plantations will likely suffer severe losses.
Many Indonesians work in factories and on plantations in Malaysia.
About 3% of the fires occurred on oil palm plantations.
The forest needs to be cleared completely for the plantations.
My interest in the plantations was both personal and professional.
Some are sold into slavery on fishing boats and plantations.
Drifting haze from fires to prepare land for palm oil plantations, or paper and wood pulp plantations, is a regular and serious problem across many countries in Southeast Asia, particularly between July and November.
The charity is supporting a complaint filed to the World Bank about poor living and working conditions on plantations in Assam owned by the World Bank and Tata Group, known as Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited.
"We reevaluated all our venues listed on Zola and determined we will not allow vendors to list who are plantations," Forrest said, adding that the company is "actively evaluating" posts featuring wedding photoshoots on plantations.
In 1861 Sunnyside was among the largest, richest plantations in Arkansas.
COLM STENSON drives around County Leitrim, pointing out new tree plantations.
Hours later his plantations and everything he owned were completely submerged.
Those who survived were forced into servitude and worked on plantations.
He talked to some farmers at one of the illegal plantations.
Currently, there are about 3.7 million slaves working on the plantations.
It resisted plantations, the Jim Crow era, and the Vietnam War.
Perhaps the clearest answer is found in the presentation of plantations
They are often more prevalent on plantations than in neighbouring jungles.
But there are hundreds, hundreds of places named after former plantations.
The government will also expel illegal farmers and destroy their plantations.
My maternal ancestors were runaway slaves from neighboring plantations in Virginia.
The disease is quickly spreading across continents, wiping out banana plantations.
The surrounding area is mostly farms, open heath and fir plantations.
For decades the city was a hub for commercial banana plantations.
The slave plantations that developed in the Mississippi Valley were huge.
"Gentlemen adventurers" want to take the land to make rich plantations.
Opponents say some crops are grown on plantations that cause deforestation.
In contrast, the Cornell Plantations were never intended to honor slavery.
We see still people live based off where plantations were historically.
Among the 48 labor camps, 30 are dubbed "agriculture and livestock breeding career training centers" where prisoners work on plantations run by the Correctional Department, or are put to work at private plantations and local farms.
Malaysia's durian plantations covered 72,000 hectares last year but the area under cultivation is growing, the department said, and in some areas plantations growing palm oil are switching to durian because it is seen as more lucrative.
This, he notes, includes the damage caused by excess fertilizer dumped on banana plantations that seeps into surrounding groundwater, and the fossil fuel emissions produced to carry the fruit thousands of miles from plantations to our houses.
Peanuts, vegetable-growing operations and pine plantations in Georgia were also damaged.
It causes Panama disease, which can wipe out entire plantations of bananas.
Madagascar is known for its rich spice plantations, including vanilla and cloves.
But overall, they're aware of the terrible living conditions on some plantations.
Haiti originally paid French colonizers for lost plantations, reports the Washington Post.
Local officials still push for more palm-oil plantations, mines and roads.
Its sprawling interests include 93 ports, three railways, energy, media and plantations.
Indonesians travel to Malaysia to work in plantations and as domestic helpers.
The first harvest on the new plantations is due in autumn 2017.
Astra has businesses including car distribution, plantations, mining equipment and financial services.
The rich rainforests of Borneo are surrounded by vast palm oil plantations.
The college relied on its plantations to help pay for its operations.
Indeed, some oil-palm firms wish for more snakes on their plantations.
And slaves were not only forced to work on the Jesuit plantations.
Astra has businesses in car distribution, plantations, mining equipment and financial services.
Generations lived and died in bondage at plantations known for their hospitality.
Some plantations are flooded and a major bridge has been swept away.
Tree plantations comprise 7 percent of the world's forest cover, researchers said.
They're on construction sites, in factories and on huge palm oil plantations.
Farmers fiercely oppose imports, saying they could bring unknown diseases to plantations.
With these conditions, Hannibal says, prisons are like modern-day slave plantations.
She suggests empowering landowners and creating plantations to take pressure off forests.
Aguilar said he did not know how much territory the plantations covered.
The Maroons had periodically raided British plantations, stolen supplies, and seized farmland.
Smaller plantations like these two form almost 50% of the Assam market.
The main issue for orangutans in Southeast Asia is palm oil plantations.
Still, the production here pales to the output on corporate coffee plantations.
He also noted that many people associate the word plantations with slavery.
In 2018, the government went further, halting the issuance of new permits for oil palm plantations and shifting the focus to higher productivity on existing plantations, said Varkkey, who has researched transboundary haze for more than 15 years.
Although decades of war with its erstwhile ruler, Sudan, have degraded South Sudan's plantations, the teak plantations could generate up to $100 million per year in export revenue if properly managed, according to the United Nations Environment Program.
Fully grown palm oil plantations were about 0.8 C warmer than forests, while young palm oil plantations were up to 6 C warmer, as young trees have fewer and smaller leaves, which transpire less water reducing their cooling effect.
Jayakumar, who as a child grew up on rubber plantations where his father worked, banned large-scale durian plantations last year, citing the risk of over-supply on prices and the likelihood China would eventually cultivate its own supplies.
At a government hill station on the edge of palm plantations in rural Bengkulu, 12 tame Sumatran elephants — former circus performers — have been recruited into a "flying squadron" to chase wild elephants away from palm oil plantations or villages.
He married money and enjoyed the revenues from vast slave-plantations in Jamaica.
On their two small plantations, the Das family produce up to 132 lbs.
"He is very well, hunting, maintaining some plantations of papaya, corn," Algayer said.
The differences in surface temperature remained when plantations had replaced the old vegetation.
But to suck up enough would be a huge undertaking, requiring vast plantations.
FEW PESTS wreak more havoc on coffee plantations than the berry-borer beetle.
Only around 15 percent of Cuban sugar plantations boast irrigation and adequate drainage.
Plantations are historically remembered in the South as estates that used slave labor.
Palm oil plantations have also been flooded, industry officials and farmers' groups said.
Both nations use palm oil from their vast plantations to churn out biodiesel.
The plantations are now emptied out, leaving bananas to rot on the trees.
Most of Fibria's 568,000 hectares of plantations lie within 200km of its mills.
The companies must put measures in to stop illegal mining in their plantations.
The 474 hectares used to plant asparagus will be dedicated to blueberry plantations.
Looking further back, George Washington, James Madison and James Monroe all owned plantations.
The plantations had been sealed off after the fires were spotted, she said.
In a lot of cases we found that these plantations are privately owned.
" And: "Tree plantations should not be established at the expense of natural forests.
African slaves started working on West Indian plantations and at New England ports.
Today these old plantations are sites of power, petrochemical and carbon burning plants.
And on Thursday, Zola said it would remove plantations from its venue listings.
Poladrone is a Malaysian startup that's writing software to analyse palm oil plantations.
Since the 1940s, a fungus called Panama disease has destroyed countless banana plantations.
Those who remember the plantations' heyday are in their 80s and 90s now.
Once the land was opened up, vast monoculture oil palm plantations were planted.
Their affairs with loggers and oil palm plantations are filtered through the government.
Many coffee plantations are stripping native trees away so they get higher yields.
Marauding elephants also regularly wander into villages in plantations throughout Sumatra, killing workers.
Much of the Mall was once occupied by plantations and worked by slaves.
The Cornell Plantations name is in some ways different from the other examples.
But in reality, it was bound by mandatory contracts to work Danish plantations.
The visit to the plantations is a chance to teach them that the Jesuits in colonial North America and the early United States owned more than 1,000 slaves on Maryland plantations, as well as in the Midwest and Deep South.
A spokesperson from Hindustan Unilever said the company purchased "a small amount of tea" for its domestic market in India last year from these two plantations, while Tata Global Beverages said it did not source tea from these particular plantations.
The fastest and cheapest way to clear new land for plantations is by burning.
Up until then, the RSPO executive board, dominated by the plantations, ruled on complaints.
Environmentalists blame much of the forest destruction on land clearance for oil-palm plantations.
The fires are often set to clear land for agriculture, including palm oil plantations.
"Prisons and jails are offsprings of slave plantations," a representative of the group said.
I'm thinking about plantations of bananas, row after row of exposed plants, without shelter.
At its founding, Georgetown relied financially on profits from Jesuit-owned plantations in Maryland.
The two nations also want to deepen efforts to eradicate opium and marijuana plantations.
Palm oil plantations have been linked to deforestation, air pollution, and illegal labor practices.
Discussions take time and frightened employees do not dare turn up at the plantations.
But to make way for plantations, huge swathes of tropical rainforest have been razed.
Last year he banned the issuance of permits for new plantations for three years.
Spruce plantations are said to be devoid of life—vertical deserts of dark green.
On slave plantations, speakers of different languages came together in the harshest possible conditions.
All were making a living from crime: mining illegally or stealing rubber from plantations.
There is no agreed map showing all plantations and (often competing) claims of ownership.
Plantations, power plants, infrastructure projects and real estate developments were also hotspots for violations.
Another three plantations were established through the 1930s, counting the strand we were in.
He was the last person to run these state-run plantations at a profit.
Flooding has damaged the country's sugar plantations -- sugar is one of its biggest exports.
The Jesuit-run university relied on money generated from the plantations the order owned.
There are a total of some 2.4 million hectares of plantations in the nation.
The slaves who worked tobacco plantations were, according to Cook, infrequently bought and sold.
While it is against Indonesian law to clear plantations by burning, enforcement is lax.
The slaves were uprooted from the Maryland plantations and shipped to estates in Louisiana.
The islands are home to the ruins of four-century-old churches and plantations.
New York City banks funded the plantations that spread all across the deep South.
Thongloun did not say whether Laos would take action against the existing banana plantations.
Locals complain that several plantations—those which are hardest to get to—have survived.
The region from Chayi to Alishan alone has 2,300 hectares worth of tea plantations.
It would be a mistake, however, to overlook the industriousness of the plantations here.
VICE: Would you be up for drinking in a bar named after slave plantations?
Plantations are also ghost towns compared to the complex biodiversity found in natural forests.
Orangutan populations are threatened by palm oil plantations in their native Borneo and Sumatra.
Large plantations like the state-owned Gisakura Tea Company cultivate most of the harvest.
Colombia ripped up more than 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of coca plantations last year.
They also could have foreclosed on the plantations, essentially shutting down the cotton industry.
But in Malaysia's palm oil plantations, the battle for key votes is well underway.
Many Southern plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places.
"Content glorifying plantations is not in line with our core values," the spokesperson said.
It found at least nine global consumer companies were sourcing from these Indonesian plantations.
The plantations work under the 1951 Plantations Labour Act -- written to encompass practically all plantation workers in the country and to ensure their rights -- which set a standard wage that experts like Satpute say haven't kept pace with broader labor market rates.
Borneo, the world's third largest island, has about 8.3 million hectares of oil palm plantations.
"We have never used wood from palm, rubber, or cassava plantations," said Somphun, the porter.
With winter pruning of its tea plantations at hand, 600 workers were threatening to strike.
Enslaved African-Americans also ran nearly every aspect of everyday life at these large plantations.
But commercial farmers do, and the Sebitoli region has a number of commercial tea plantations.
There's Darjeeling, where the scenery, deep-green tea plantations surrounded by mountains, is absolutely breathtaking.
Since 2012, Chinese companies can offset their carbon emissions by buying credits in bamboo plantations.
Oil-palm plantations provide homes for 65-90% fewer species of mammal than natural forests.
In 2015 and 2017 he extended a moratorium on converting forest and peatland to plantations.
It can be difficult to grow vanilla in plantations, where it becomes susceptible to disease.
Two-thirds of the accommodation on plantations is in barrack-style "line-rooms" or sheds.
Farmers complain that land is being taken out of use by generously subsidised tree plantations.
And, the instrument makers say, they get most of it from sustainable plantations in India.
William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 to confiscate plantations on the seacoast.
"It could be good for cane plantations, but not so good for coffee," he said.
But timber, rubber, paper and palm oil plantations have encroached on the forests of Indonesia.
Logging swallowed big swathes of the savanna; cotton and sugar plantations chewed up the leftovers.
The area this group now operates in has few plantations and no illegal gold mines.
Salim was also a buyer of the palm that would come from the Sintang plantations.
They are usually set during operations to clear land for palm oil and pulp plantations.
Each day acres of Borneo's rain forests are wiped out for industrial palm oil plantations.
Rajawali's plantations have been accused by environmental and labor groups of deforestation and illegal burning.
And plantations continue to carry the significance of the violence that white supremacy has wrought.
"There's no way to separate the beauty and the violence of plantations," Walcott-Wilson said.
Local people served as slave labor on those plantations, alongside Africans brought by Spanish invaders.
But the name of the Cornell Plantations has also been criticized by many minority students on the campus, who view the word "plantations" as associated with slavery, even if the land and programs that makes up the Cornell gardens never had any association with slavery.
One thinks back to Roger Williams, who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
The company also owns one of the largest cocoa plantations in Indonesia, located on Seram Island.
Its sugar mill near its plantations in Lampung in southern Sumatra started operations in April 200153.
After delousing and registration, most were swiftly hired to work on coffee plantations or other farms.
Community members who have tried to stand up to these plantations have been threatened with death.
Under mission rule, they toiled in agriculture, working on sugar and coffee plantations, for meager rations.
In fact, coffee farming could increase four fold if plantations are moved uphill, the study says.
Midstream ones, such as Sintang and Sanggau, earn hefty tax revenues by encouraging palm-oil plantations.
After 2012 clear-cutting by industrial-scale palm oil plantations dropped, but smallholders felled more trees.
Thousands of hectares of tropical forests in Latin America were converted into vast Gros Michel plantations.
He hired a lorry to move his five heifers 30km to higher ground in timber plantations.
Two weeks later, the rebels set plantations ablaze and poisoned drinking wells, kicking off the revolution.
Indonesia's Environment Ministry spokesman Djati Witjaksono Hadi said smallholders, "not companies", owned plantations in national parks.
So the idea that this would be pornography goes back to people imagining whips and plantations.
To meet it, Indonesian farmers set fires to clear forest and make way for new plantations.
China is growing fast as a coffee producer, Myanmar and Philippines are starting coffee plantations again.
Palm oil plantations accounted for 5%, energy 4% and property, investment and others for the balance.
Environmentalists put much of the blame for forest destruction on land clearance for oil-palm plantations.
Poppy fields were replaced by plantations, mostly rubber, as well as coffee and tea, they say.
The disease had affected 382,000 hectares (943,940 acres) of rubber plantations in Indonesia as of Oct.
Smallholders currently account for roughly 40 percent of Indonesia's 12 million hectares of palm oil plantations.
Vahdam sources all its tea directly from more than 100 tea plantations in India and Nepal.
But the link between plantations and deforestation was much more stark in Malaysian Borneo, Gaveau said.
With state backing, some Chinese businessmen are developing avocado plantations in the southern province of Guangxi.
They came from a family of farm laborers who worked for abysmal wages in coffee plantations.
Satellite images from 2017 confirmed that the forests on the Sintang plantations were now virtually gone.
Huge swaths of forest are being razed to clear space for palm oil and cocoa plantations.
A four-day tasting journey to haciendas and plantations follows the beans from tree to cup.
Greenpeace Indonesia said 80% of cleared forests had been turned into become palm and pulpwood plantations.
Infrastructure for livestock, including chicken coops and dairy barns, were destroyed and entire plantations are gone.
America's smallest state has the longest official name: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Under the country's law, the minimum age for hazardous work, including jobs on plantations, is 18.
"These plantations should not be romanticizing the history of what actually took place there," she said.
Now those areas hold tilapia ponds or have been razed to make room for sugarcane plantations.
Greenpeace Indonesia said 80% of cleared forests had been turned into become palm and pulpwood plantations.
"This may actually help us learn more about how palm oil plantations affect mangroves," he says.
Hangzhou is revered in China for its misty mountains, tea plantations and the famous West Lake.
It's surrounded by nature, with olive and orange groves, valleys and almond plantations on its outskirts.
He grew up on the plantations owned by his father, who ran a successful billboard company.
"Firstly, as an African American we have been in cages fighting on the plantations" Barron began.
The Andean country has 50,000 hectares (123,500 acres) of banana plantations that generate about 30,000 direct jobs.
Was 3,715 m/t * Chin teck plantations bhd- production for palm kernel for the month of nov.
Even if a tiny plant was left after clearing weeds in the sugarcane plantations we were beaten.
They burned six plantations and fought off white militias for a week before the rebellion was ended.
For example, companies are clearing massive areas of primary forests in the Peruvian Amazon for new plantations.
Similarly, most of the deforestation in Kalimantan results from large-scale conversion to agriculture or timber plantations.
Teabox, for those not familiar with the company, sources teas direct from plantations in India and Nepal.
Big swaths of its already-limited ecological niche are being cleared away, largely for plantations and agriculture.
He defended liberty while operating a personal empire of cotton plantations using hundreds of enslaved black laborers.
From the late 19th century the British colonial overlords brought Indian labourers to work on sugarcane plantations.
Up until the 1960s, Gros Michel, or "Big Mike," was the prime variety grown in commercial plantations.
The area surrounding Mount Lico is a patchwork of smallholder farms, tea and eucalyptus plantations, and woodlands.
The process has been heavily criticized by farmers for devastating legal crops as well as illicit plantations.
Sometimes, though, it gets diverted entirely to sugar plantations while the wheat fields and almond trees die.
Indonesia's president pledged in April to tackle the fires by imposing a moratorium on expansion of plantations.
But neither he nor his neighbors will work on the plantations, or venture near them during spraying.
Kotagala Plantations PLC (CC(lka)) may also face further liquidity pressure on account of higher interest payments.
Mostly plantations, pineapple, sugar cane, railroads—that infrastructure being built brought over Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people.
Oil palm plantations (5%), energy (4%) and property, investment and others (10%) account for the balance 19%.
Homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, churches, telecomm towers, coffee plantations were all annihilated by the Category 5 hurricane.
Besides avocado orchards, Michoacan for decades has been known for marijuana plantations and the making of methamphetamine.
Lake Okeechobee, southern Florida's largest lake, fills up with pollution from the nearby sugar plantations every year.
This is the old "Black Belt," named for the fertile soil that gave rise to cotton plantations.
The maps covered 45.8 million hectares of plantations in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia and Peru.
Saimir Tahiri, Albania's interior minister, swoops down in a helicopter to observe the destruction of the plantations.
That has left farmers unable to care for their plantations or combat the degradation of their beans.
Property development and palm oil, rubber and more recently durian plantations have also encroached on their land.
In some cases, prisons were built directly on top of old plantations such as Angola in Louisiana.
Unlike some other plantations, the Royall House museum emphasizes what the enslaved people there would have experienced.
Before the Civil War, about 30,000 slaves from Africa had been brought to plantations on the islands.
Each day they fly over thousands of plantations, searching for coca leaf crops to disperse the chemical.
Simultaneously, water was diverted for a government scheme to establish industrial sugarcane plantations throughout the Omo Valley.
"You go up in the helicopter and within two minutes you start seeing plantations here, there, everywhere."
They were then leased out to private companies for de facto slave labor on railroads and plantations.
It&aposs surrounded by nature, with olive and orange groves, valleys, and almond plantations on its outskirts.
Employees of the Rainforest Alliance audit the plantations registered with the NGO every year to ensure compliance.
The group pushed the sites to stop promoting plantations that formerly had slaves as wedding venues altogether.
The policy would protect some 10,000 children on Wilmar's plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Africa, she said.
In a pair of adjacent circular plantations, Hatakiwe manages over 903 saplings, some already taller than she.
Christopher Dunn, director of the Cornell Plantations, said he viewed "plantation" as being about a single crop.
Critics say that instead of mitigating environmental damage, tree plantations aimed at compensating deforestation make matters worse.
"It's very remote but what we've seen in south-east Asia is that these once-remote areas have been dried out and converted to oil palm plantations and rice plantations and other forms of industrial agriculture causing a huge release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere," Lewis told Reuters.
Spectacular mountains, lakes and tea plantations make the seven northeastern sister states apart from the rest of India.
Rainforest Alliance said it was "very concerned" by the data and committed to improving conditions on tea plantations.
And investors are eyeing forests in New Guinea, equatorial Africa, and other parts of Latin America for plantations.
First come the loggers; clear-cutting and burning follow, to make way for palm-oil or timber plantations.
"The concern is over competitiveness between palm and soy," said Ivy Ng, plantations analyst at CIMB Investment Bank.
Although Ferrero says it sources palm oil from sustainable plantations, it has still come under criticism from environmentalists.
Other companies operating palm plantations in Indonesia include Golden Agri-Resources, Indofood Agri Resources and Astra Agro Lestari.
"The state is effectively creating land banks for commercial plantations," said Tushar Dash of conservation advocacy group Vasundhara.
The ministry will also study working conditions at palm plantations and improve labor protection in Indonesia, he said.
They didn't see why they should leave their homes for back-breaking labor on plantations and in mines.
Imported trees such as the Douglas Fir were established as harvestable plantations, including the first Redwoods in 1929.
In the late 2000s, Liberia signed a series of agreements with oil palm companies to cultivate vast plantations.
The blazes are an annual occurrence, when farmers clear land by burning it, often for palm oil plantations.
The challenger said the proportion of small farmers' holdings in the country's palm plantations should also be larger.
They feast on the swarms of rats that are attracted to plantations by the energy-packed palm kernels.
Indonesian government officials told Reuters they stood by their blending plan, while Malaysia's plantations ministry declined to comment.
A lot of his wealth came from the African slaves he had working on sugar plantations and farms.
The RSPO evaluates whether or not plantations are meeting the standards through an auditor called a Certification Body.
My job was to lead tours and tell guests about the people who made plantations possible: the slaves.
They created unique flavors by planting beans between citrus patches and vanilla plantations also growing on the estate.
Across the island, Maria's prolonged barrage took out entire plantations and destroyed dairy barns and industrial chicken coops.
"There are not a lot of us — people who look like me — who come on plantations," McGill said.
The McLeod house and slave cabins Many plantations function as more than a historical site and tourist attraction.
What we have seen are some really incredible curators at plantations such as Brigette Jones at Belle Meade.
The school has acknowledged that profits from Maryland Jesuits' slave-owning plantations were a significant source of funding.
And they often ignore the enslaved people who provided the labor on plantations built before the Civil War.
Others have argued that word of Tacky's actions inspired people to take up arms on their own plantations.
"Everything that they were saying about plantations — romanticizing a plantation — I totally agree with that 100%," Lauren said.
Though rubber trees are indigenous to South America, the vast majority of rubber plantations today are in Asia.
Many plantations are backed by investors from China or Taiwan, alongside businessmen connected to the Wa State leadership.
It was common for these Southerners to work as sharecroppers on plantations, or in other low-skill trades.
He said the foundation was also working with the company to protect wild orangutans currently on its plantations.
Rubber plantations, cockfights and occasional comebacks aside, Poot is still involved in gym life and schooling up new fighters.
Having learned that palm oil plantations destroyed the habitats of orangutans, the scouts began checking products for palm oil.
Here, in Indonesia, oil palm plantations have been one of the largest drivers of deforestation in the last decade.
But the number of people employed in the coffee industry can vary, from landowners, or those working on plantations.
Other palm oil harvesters are now reportedly staying home instead of visiting plantations out of fear of similar incidents.
" Pretty sure Bill O'Reilly would also claim white people helped with picking cotton on plantations by providing "firm management.
This beautiful country has something for everyone, including lush green coffee plantations, sparkling crystal beaches, and quaint colonial towns.
Along the garden's view of Sarasota Bay, a field of salvia has been planted to visually evoke lavender plantations.
Sime Darby's plantations and property arms accounted for nearly 70 percent of its profits during its 2016 fiscal year.
Fruit plantations have also expanded strongly to more than 1,000 hectares, helped by investment from Spain, Germany, and Switzerland.
Vardah could take a heavy toll on the country's agricultural sector, destroying banana plantations, papaya groves and rice paddies.
"The expansion of palm oil plantations is fragmenting the forest and cutting off key elephant migration corridors," he posted.
It was not enough to "bomb the Colombian drug plantations and clean out the ghetto crack houses," he said.
At Georgetown, college officials relied on Jesuit plantations in Maryland to help finance the school's operations, university officials said.
A November 2016 report from rights group Amnesty International claimed labor abuses were rife on Indonesian palm oil plantations.
On the smaller plantations, or those with a poorer tea yield, there was no medical care, no primary education.
Berta Cáceres, an indigenous leader who was a prominent campaigner against dams and plantations, was murdered there last March.
The university would likely not still be in existence without the sale of slaves from Jesuit plantations in 1838.
State-supervised cannabis plantations will be set up in Germany in future and until then cannabis will be imported.
Others complained the lack of medicines and medical staff within plantations forced them to opt for expensive hospitals outside.
Tiny Laos is increasingly unhappy at being a Chinese client state, with locals chafing at Chinese loggers and plantations.
But it doesn't take long for Nat and Samuel to see the inhumane treatment that's rampant on other plantations.
To encourage people to work plantations, he declared that the land belonged to whomever grew cash crops on it.
Concerns about the amount of forest and peatland cleared for plantations have plagued the palm oil industry for years.
Lost Cause adherents glorified the antebellum South, painting a bucolic tableau of Southern belles, stately plantations and happy slaves.
The study says that coffee farming could increase by four times if plantations were moved to these higher elevations.
Tubman guided federal gunships up the Combahee River past underwater mines to liberate 756 slaves off three large plantations.
Conservationists have also criticized the slow progress of the Forest Rights Act and a move to promote commercial plantations.
Juan Carlos Ramirez, commander of the 7th division of the army, which is eradicating coca plantations in the region.
Indonesia is under pressure to end slash-and-burn clearance of land, often on plant palm and pulp plantations.
Plantations cover almost a third of the land area in Malaysia and 13 percent of the land in Indonesia.
There is that vibe, and then we were talking about New Orleans and the plantations in Louisiana and whatnot.
There is a great deal of conjecture as to just how prolific and violent boxing matches were on plantations.
"I spent four or five summers actually in Kerinci, in Riau for example or in the plantations," he said.
She was one of nine children born into slavery, but most of her siblings were sold to distant plantations.
Particularly destructive to their way of life were the fires agro-industrialists set to clear the forests for plantations.
Palm oil plantations have begun to encroach on the Q'eqchi' lands north of the village where Jakelin's family lives.
The stories were written in dialect and tried to evoke images of a nonexistent idyllic life on Southern plantations.
They realized they could potentially make lots of money serving as middlemen between local cotton plantations and northern mills.
Taken together, haste and fatigue and lengthening work hours heightened the risk of accident already endemic on the plantations.
In Africa, it's the same, with new rubber plantations, new roads and new farms cutting deeply into gorilla areas.
The destruction of forests to make way for plantations is also threatening the survival of wildlife such as orangutans.
Even France's Michelin rubber plantations, clustered in the nearest province west of Saigon, made regular payments to Communist coffers.
People like Brigette are working to create a whole field of history around what actually happened at these plantations.
The plantations of the South — before and after the Civil War — were worked by women as well as men.
Virtually nothing, as it did not transform American slavery or change the lives of others enslaved on Jefferson's plantations.
Those proved to be ideal for the planting of rice, and large-scale rice plantations arose in those areas.
Meanwhile, today's densely cultivated plantations and interconnected shipping networks, it's believed, have allowed the fungus to spread more efficiently.
Fruit plantations have also expanded strongly to more than 1,000 hectares, helped by investment from Spain, Germany, and Switzerland.
The Robin Hood Laptop Project offers computers to kids who otherwise wouldn't have the technological literacy to escape the plantations, and even some tea plantations have made their own efforts to provide educational opportunities to the tea pluckers' children, like Fair Trade gardens in India, which require children stay in school until graduation.
Bueno's remarks underscored the importance of Latin America for Stora Enso's strategy to obtain low-cost pulp from tree plantations.
Some Indian plantations that are certified as slavery-free nonetheless mistreat their workers, according to research by Britain's Sheffield University.
The NPA guerrillas have been targeting mines, plantations and other businesses, demanding "revolutionary taxation" to finance arms purchases and recruitment.
Sri Lanka is known for its lush jungles, tea plantations, Buddhist temples, and beaches, and is a popular tourism destination.
The policies include safeguards for workers and require companies to seek permission from local communities prior to establishing new plantations.
A naturally dry region that receives little rainfall, Petorca depends on groundwater to supply its dense network of avocado plantations.
"The biggest companies are diversified companies that are involved in any number of things: Plantations, beverages, retail, whatever," Mobius said.
Wind down the globetrotting with four days to explore the beach, volcanoes, and pineapple plantations before booking it back home.
He said they would be treated there and could also find work on nearby pig farms or palm oil plantations.
Environmentalists say land-clearing for agricultural plantations in Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil producer, is responsible for forest destruction.
The first 21,2000 "hill-country Tamils" came to work in the island's nascent coffee plantations in 20030 as indentured labourers.
"We hope there will still be some sunshine, otherwise there will be damage in the plantations," said farmer Amadou Diallo.
Indigenous communities like the Guarani have lost nearly 95 percent of their traditional territories to industrial sugarcane and soy plantations.
Around 80% of the island's agricultural crop was destroyed, including coffee and banana plantations that will take years to regrow.
Deforestation and land clearing for pulp paper and palm oil plantations has depleted the habitat of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans.
"While collecting just the tea plantations and strawberry fields, he burned through four pairs of shoes," a Google rep said.
Following pressure from rights groups, the Laos government announced moratoriums on concessions for some mining and commercial plantations in 2012.
Concerns about the amount of forests and peat lands cleared for plantations have plagued the palm oil industry for years.
Founded in 1969, Korindo has pulp and paper and renewable energy businesses, as well as timber and oil palm plantations.
About 900 of the 1,200 residents of Maringouin, a small town in Louisiana near one of the plantations, are descendants.
The government is to set up specially supervised plantations to grow cannabis and will import what it needs for now.
In Sumatra and Borneo, forests have been pulped to make way for palm oil plantations, with devastating consequences for orangutans.
In Thailand, at least 50,000 hectares of plantations along the border with Malaysia may have been affected, the group said.
Pepsi-Co last month suspended procurement from a palm oil supplier over claims of labor abuses on its Indonesian plantations.
Visitors to the Jesuit plantations, including an Irish priest who visited Maryland in 1820, documented the violence against the enslaved.
But most of its rubber and palm-oil plantations, and all of its banana ones, have shut because of attacks.
Activists say a new forest law favoring commercial plantations would undermine indigenous rights over forests and lead to more logging.
The Jesuit priests, who owned the slaves and ran the college, used their plantations in Maryland to help finance operations.
Among them were the Meahers, who had moved from Maine to Alabama, where they owned sawmills, steamboats, plantations, and people.
The next day, tour the Oak Alley and Laura plantations — two opulent antebellum mansions about an hour from New Orleans.
Last week Khan launched the project's website, which includes GPS coordinates of all the plantations and a live tree counter.
Lots of folks who visit historic sites and plantations don't expect to hear too much about slavery while they're there.
When their demands were ignored, some of the slaves attacked plantations before British troops crushed the uprising in early January.
That's a clear fact in the data: Places that had slave plantations have much lower levels of upward mobility today.
In February, BuzzFeed News visited three plantations around Charleston, South Carolina, that differed in their approach to addressing this history.
There is little doubt that huge areas of rain forest are being leveled to make way for palm oil plantations.
Outbreaks of the rust have drastically affected coffee production and many small farmers have lost their plantations, Professor Perfecto said.
African-Americans were typically assigned to swampy plantations where the dangerous, backbreaking occupation of chopping sugar cane often awaited them.
Palm plantations in both Malaysia and Indonesia have come under scrutiny over logging activities, forest-clearing, fires and labor abuses.
Eliza Allen helped form at least three secret societies for women on her own and nearby plantations in Petersburg, Virginia.
She preached the differences between the interracial cooperative farm she organized and the white-owned plantations where she was raised.
The demand for palm oil is growing, and Indonesia aims to increase the yield of existing plantations through intensification methods.
Rains across palm oil plantations could potentially disrupt harvest and reduce production, but boost fruit yields in the longer term.
And Mechanicville is less than a half a mile away from where the plantations were where our ancestors were enslaved.
Casement was knighted by George V in 1911 for exposing abuse at Belgium's rubber plantations in the Congo, Time reports.
He noted that, during his childhood in Martinsville, Va., he routinely saw Confederate flags and visited plantations on school trips.
The government said more than 40,000 hectares of crops had been damaged, including sugar cane, rice fields and rubber plantations.
In the southern region of Agboville, farmers said damage to plantations was raising fears of a small mid-crop harvest.
Entire generations have resided in the plantations, passing on the legacy of servitude and human rights violations on over time.
"You can imagine there could be former plantations that maybe have changed their names to manors or farms," Sivajee said.
Cornell University announced last week that it is changing the name of the Cornell Plantations to the Cornell Botanic Gardens.
Millions of acres of rainforest, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia, have been destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations.
But again, vegetation is so dry and winds so fierce that even lush, manicured plantations are going up in flames.
A more direct route of security commodities for future usage is through the purchase of assets like plantations and mines.
Notes found with the images give small clues as to the identity of the slaves — their names, plantations and tribes.
You can visit highland jungle trails, coffee plantations or the twin volcano craters called Los Gemelos, all just outside town.
Around 5,000 left to work halfway around the world on sugar plantations in Hawaii, then also a new US territory.
When you're talking about plantation cultivation you're talking about people working on plantations because they have no other way to eat.
KEY RATING DRIVERS Sugar Output Grows; Prices Lower: TBLA started sugarcane plantations in 200173 and its refinery began operations in 200163.
They also booby-trap their illicit plantations, most often with a homemade gun built from a tripwire, spring, and metal pipe.
For several years before that, he had been the general manager of a 2100,000-acre estate divided into five profitable plantations.
Roughly 19 percent of all goods that came through Dutch harbors were produced on slave plantations in the Americas, he said.
She's in Barbados, celebrating Crop Over, a harvest festival that dates back to the colonial period and the country's sugar plantations.
British colonists planted thousands of hectares of teak plantations in southern Sudan in the 1940s, as an industrial source of timber.
Samnang's white, camouflaged, and unidentifiable specter-like figure, photographed on different plantations, are as a strong symbol of invisible indigenous people.
Production of wood pulp can involve clearing forests to build eucalyptus plantations, taking land traditionally used by indigenous communities, campaigners say.
In the 1990s, the pineapple and sugar plantations started to close, and tourism became even more important to the islands' economy.
"It is a great loss, because I see the opportunities there are to make money in the palm plantations," he added.
But Big Mike's popularity led to its doom, when a pandemic whipped through these plantations during the 1950s and '43's.
The NFSW estimates that 70% of redistributed land from sugarcane plantations on Negros has been leased back to the original owner.
European traders happened upon it in the 19th century and set up plantations in the Caribbean, South Pacific, and Southeast Asia.
The river crossings that preceded it were built to connect the town to the plantations, and slaveowner wealth drove local development.
While plants just blew away, the storm ravaged entire plantations — plantain, banana, coffee, sugar and papaya crops were the hardest hit.
They mined tin and coal, developed oilfields and created massive plantations to grow tobacco, cocoa, coffee, rubber, tea, sugar and indigo.
The guerrillas have been targeting mines, plantations, construction and telecommunication companies, demanding "revolutionary taxation" to finance arms purchases and recruitment activities.
While her father had not sold his land, others in the family have worked on palm plantations that surround their village.
"There is improving quality of palm plantations, and also a younger tree age-profile in Indonesia," said a Singapore-based trader.
Also when touring plantations for historical context, comments about how "kind" the slave owners were, are extremely inappropriate and hurtful. 63.
In recent years, the indigenous peoples of the mountains range have witnessed how opium poppy plantations have taken over their lands.
In 22015, Domenic Marafiote disappeared after leaking the names of Society members and the locations of mob marijuana plantations to police.
The group, which included Taiwanese journalists and local scholars, was shown vegetable gardens and plantations of coconuts, sweet potatoes and papayas.
This year, Georgetown created an online archive that includes records that describe the slave sale and the Jesuit and Louisiana plantations.
This month marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America to work plantations in English colonies.
Some Indian plantations certified as slavery-free are nonetheless abusing and underpaying their workers, according to research by Britain's Sheffield University.
The names of the people who were taken from the Jesuit plantations in Maryland and shipped to New Orleans are known.
Park sites include ruins of sugar plantations dating to the 1700s and rock carvings made by ancient inhabitants of the island.
Over the next two days, 300 or more people of color will march 26 miles along former antebellum plantations in Louisiana.
Throughout, black women are standing, sitting, phalanxed on the porches of what feel like plantations and antiquated houses, rich with pain.
A: We were thinking about being on those plantations at the time of her ancestors and what they would have worn.
Indonesia, just to the south, was slash-burning their land, destroying immeasurable biodiversity in favor of more profitable mono-crop plantations.
The ancestors of the Ilois had been transported to the islands as slaves to work coconut plantations in the 18th century.
The Heilala Vanilla Foundation, established in 2013, is also working with other South Pacific island countries to create viable vanilla plantations.
It was really dark because of the harm it did to people if you look at the conditions on the plantations.
The wild animals that formed the backbone of their diet, along with wild yams, could not survive among the monoculture plantations.
It could create far more jobs than nearby sugar plantations, which employ just one worker for every eight hectares, he said.
So too, there are antebellum plantations, including a handful of privately owned plantation homes in various states of repair (or not).
Others joined them as they moved to nearby plantations, setting them afire and killing about two dozen enslavers, especially violent overseers.
Detractors questioned the Americanness of the melodies, claiming that they were African or actually derived from white sources heard on plantations.
Enslavement followed, first in sugar plantations and later when the rubber boom drew profitseekers to the Amazon starting in the 1870s.
In 2012, after a black sigatoka fungus infested over 40 percent of its banana plantations, Ecuador reported losses of $600 million.
Most of the plantations around us were new, their rise a direct consequence of policy decisions made half a world away.
Suhadi, long a critic of how the palm-oil companies managed their plantations, feared that they had now done something cataclysmic.
As the plantations and sugar refineries multiply, local tribespeople have increasingly been fighting back, staging raids against both machinery and workers.
Only Gorreana and the neighboring Chá Porto Formoso plantations remain from a once-thriving industry that peaked in the 20th century.
Since the early 1950s, large landowners have grabbed land for banana, sugar and palm oil plantations, producing products for foreign markets.
Plantations already exist in Oman, and in Somaliland, she has planted nurseries with trees that will soon be available for sponsorship.
Among Charleston's biggest slaveholders was the Middleton family, which from 21892 to 2100 owned some 18003,21800 slaves on its numerous plantations.
Popular wedding-planning platforms Pinterest and The Knot Worldwide are taking a stand against using former slave plantations as wedding venues.
Paper and palm oil plantations farm their crop in the rich peatlands of the Sumatran coast and the island of Borneo.
Visitors are drawn to the city's stunning location in the Aburrá Valley, among mountains and jungle, flower farms, and coffee plantations.
"Forest destruction in the Cyclops mountains have increased for use as firewood and to turn the land into plantations," Nugroho said.
Although Coca-Cola regularly audits and controls the juice companies and the plantations they own directly, this does not include subcontractors.
A Hindustan Unilever spokesperson told CNN that 212% of its tea for the domestic Indian market comes from non-certified plantations.
Helms said she was disappointed to hear last week's news because, to her, these plantations are acknowledgments of the country's past.
But modern plantations, planted since the mid-1980s, are dominated by the deglet nour, which makes up 90-100% of production.
But modern plantations, planted since the mid-1980s, are dominated by the deglet nour, which makes up 90-100% of production.
New palm oil plantations are completely replacing forests in Southeast Asia — one of the most primate-diverse parts of the world.
Cornell officials who have been reviewing the identity of the Cornell Plantations said that its name is inconsistent with its activities.
Language experts say that the word plantations is associated with slavery, but also has roots that are about plants, not slavery.
The animals are only on Sumatra, where their rain forest habitat is quickly being replaced by rubber and palm oil plantations.
Almond plantations in the area doubled in size last year to more than 5,500 hectares, with foreign investors dominating new plantings.
And they need to have plans and procedures in place to prevent and fight fires both on plantations and around their estates.
The upmarket tea brand was the fourth to reveal all the plantations it uses in India's Assam state for its black tea.
The government said on Saturday more than 40,000 hectares of crops had been damaged, including sugar cane, rice fields and rubber plantations.
Are they hopeful of reaching a critical mass soon where everyone from celebrities to the US government is denouncing palm oil plantations?
Nearly 2756,22017 square kilometers of degraded cattle pasture in Brazil has been transformed into cocoa plantations already, according to the AIPC's Bastos.
It was a hard, hot hike through eucalyptus plantations and fields of bright purple agapanthus plants, with steep climbs and tricky descents.
The government considers the species to be "naturalized" because of its history on the archipelago, where mahogany plantations date back a century.
Azmin said in parliament that Najib had asked Felda to purchase a stake in Eagle High Plantations from Indonesian businessman Peter Sondakh.
But more sun would be needed over the coming weeks to avoid diseases in plantations and help pods grow bigger, they said.
The tribes are pressing to change environmental and Indian laws so that they can keep their plantations and sell their harvests legally.
Other companies operating palm plantations in Indonesia include Golden Agri-Resources Ltd, Indofood Agri Resources Ltd and PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk.
This style is a tribute to my humble grandfather, who worked on plantations in the early 1900s to support his ten children.
He was born in Medellín, Colombia's second-largest city, and goes to Urabá to check his plantations once or twice a month.
Its flower farms, tea fields and coffee plantations provide much of the country's exports, as well as employment for thousands of workers.
"We don't know how this trade war will turn out," said Ivy Ng, regional head of plantations research at CIMB Investment Bank.
This drop has had an adverse impact on producers like Dilmah Tea that primarily harvest from Ceylon tea plantations in Sri Lanka.
Bolsonaro's hardline rhetoric on crime garnered early support from Brazil's farm belt, where booming plantations are threatened by land invasions and robberies.
James Montgomery, a Union officer, conduct a raid behind Confederate lines and also helped liberate 750 slaves from plantations in South Carolina.
Nearly 21,2756 square kilometers of degraded cattle pasture in Brazil has been transformed into cocoa plantations already, according to the AIPC's Bastos.
"This is a death knell for the domestic refining industry and will halt expansion of palm plantations in the country," he said.
"Forestry plantations are being felled and cleared and avocados planted," said Derek Donkin, chief executive of the South African Subtropical Growers' Association.
Southern states enacted the "Slave Codes," to monitor and codify oppression into law, deputizing white America as prison guards of the plantations.
Even in Israel, just south of the shrinking Sea of Galilee, swathes of irrigated land are covered in plastic-draped banana plantations.
The destruction of millions of acres of carbon-rich Indonesian peatlands for palm oil plantations is helping to drive climate change today.
The donkeys are the last of more than 500 that were castoffs from the early days of Hawaiian coffee and agricultural plantations.
Wakker at AidEnvironment said the Korindo case poses a challenge for President Widodo after his moratorium on clearing new land for plantations.
Barry Callebaut determines if beans have the properties that make ruby chocolate by testing cocoa pods on plantations for particular genetic properties.
Former plantations and estates, which once downplayed the role of slavery, have begun making the issue a central topic in their tours.
His dedication runs so deep that he dresses up in period clothes and cooks food of the African diaspora at restored plantations.
They're made from natural latex rubber that's flexible and waterproof — and sourced from sustainable and ethical plantations in China and Southeast Asia.
Mars also plans to work with certifiers and suppliers to tackle hazardous child labour on plantations through community monitoring and intervention schemes.

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