Starting in 1988, various plantations in Jalisco began suffering blights, caused by fungus and parasites.
Analysts, though, point to strong profit growth from Genting's palm oil plantations and oil-and-gas-production business.
Analysts say the shortage has arisen because coconut plantations have been unscrupulously converted for housing development.
Attempting to buy shares he doesn't own in Malaysia's Perlis Plantations Berhad, an edible oils conglomerate.
Wealthy landowners flocked to the area, building plantations to grow Sea Island cotton, among other goods.
The area is subject to various overlapping concessions, including preliminary licences for conversion to palm-oil plantations.
But in those businesses Top Glove doesn't have the same edge, namely, proximity to rubber plantations.
Thousands of landless poor are clamoring for plots to slash and burn for plantations.
So was chattel slavery and the back-breaking manual labor that kept these massive plantations thriving.
When the peasants threatened the strike, the owners threatened to shut down the plantations.
Overall in the plantations, the result will be temporary or permanent unemployment for thousands of workers.
Haiti began its existence as a brutal French slave colony divided into sugar and coffee plantations.
Over the next 40 years, the British imported labour from India to work the sugar plantations.
In the 1950s, commercial plantations all grew one variety of banana, called Gros Michel.
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New plantations were for ever springing up, and Bolivia has no real census of land use.
Among its legacies are the many Caribbean descendants of Indians who migrated to work on plantations.
At one point the plantations of St Domingue provided two-thirds of France's overseas wealth.
The mainly Sinhala province also has a large population of Indian-origin Tamils working in plantations.
Many plantations have given way to catfish farms, but these too are past their glory days.
Even worse, many of the town's prized plantations and historic homes have been put up for sale.
The Awa started to fight the takeover of their territories for palm oil plantations 16 years ago.
From 1879, indentured contract workers were imported from India to work on the country's expanding sugar plantations.
His government has increased the weedkiller's strength, and let small plots as well as large plantations be sprayed.
Tea production took off in Sri Lanka in the late 1800s after disease devastated the country's coffee plantations.
After following the process above, the company opted to clear invasive species from its South African plantations.
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Back in the 1940s, if you worked on the plantations, you worked half a day on Saturday, too.
"Some of the cane plantations are the size of European states, " says Fabio Feldman, a leading Brazilian environmentalist.
The result was that the countryside became impoverished and in many places farms and plantations fell into disuse.
True enough, the land in this vast savannah has become more economically valuable due largely to soyabean plantations.
Damage is mostly in the area of housing, infrastructure and crops plantations, but no assessment of those damages yet.
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