The huge plantations near Charleston were also in need of rebuilding.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

Under the Khmer Rouge government in the late 1970s, Kampot's famous pepper plantations were uprooted and replaced with rice fields.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

China,Kuwait and South Korea are among the countries that have signed deals with Cambodia's government to create large plantations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

For them,the hope is that the plantations provide enough jobs to make up for the small farms lost.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

The government has granted nearly a million hectares to companies to develop plantations in the countryside, were 92 percent of poor Cambodians live.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

David Pred of Bridges Across Borders, a group that helps farmers, says big plantations are unsustainable because they leave many families with nothing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

While big plantations provide jobs, rights groups say they drive the price of land higher, and force many small farmers off their land.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

In Asia,wildfires also are a particular danger in Indonesia and Malaysia, especially in areas where farmers burn wild growth to create palm oil plantations.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

"People of African descent would escape from plantations and they received refuge Native Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The toads are native to the Americas. They were brought to Queensland in the 1930s in an unsuccessful attempt to eradicate beetles that were destroying sugar cane plantations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07