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In which of these ways does plantation farming differ from slash & burn farming and permanent cultivation?

I can’t find the answer to this question anywhere in my history text book. The choices are
a) crops are tended by the entire village
b) crops are harvested by traditional methods
c) crops are moved to new land once soil is worn out
d) crops are grown for profit rather than for personal use

helllllllp?

Well, let’s think about this.

Slash and burn frees up forested/jungle areas for crops and the wood ash enriches the soil for a few years. When the soil wears out, a new section is burned and the old one left to go back wild. Traditionally this was done in a sustenance format, but now commercial crops are done this way too.

Permanent cultivation is the modern method of farming where a field is fertilized and soil is managed to keep producing crops year after year for generations. This has always been a combination of sustenance and commercial production as left over crops, and some specially grown crops are marketed for money and the goal of the farm is profit.

Plantation farming is kind of a mix of the two if I understand things right. Fields are rotated in and out of production. Historically large quantity of crops were grown that required a lot of hand labor and since hand labor was traditionally cheap, innovation wasn’t encouraged. Crops were grown with an intention to market for money.

So I guess I’d select d as the answer, but I’d be shaky on it.

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