Sentence examples for big plantations from inspiring English sources

"Big plantations are back with the help of the 'green revolution' steamroller.

The FSC's Alison Kriscenski agrees that certifying big plantations is controversial.

'The fear is the disease will get into some big plantations, then we will be in trouble,' added Vezina.

We are surrounded by big plantations of palm, sugar and banana, and they have deforested and diverted the rivers.

Some sellers of fair trade products fear that small coffee farmers will lose market share to the big plantations and that companies will have an incentive to include only the minimum amount of fair trade ingredients in their products.

Freedom of association for agricultural workers has also been achieved in most countries, although this is more readily achieved in big plantations with a stable labour force than in the traditional subsistence-farming sector.

The Dominican Republic is the largest quota holder, and one of the big plantation owners there is -- surprise -- the Fanjul family.

Far more significant, in Riau ("the deforestation centre of Indonesia", according to Yumiko Uryo of WWF) and across Indonesia, are large-scale commercial operations: illegal logging and the conversion of forest land by big plantation companies.

To remedy this, the government is establishing a big plantation forestry which will make it even harder for the ejidatarios to compete".In terms of economics, community forestry doesn't make much sense," says Juan Manuel Torres Rojo, director-general of the Mexican forestry department.

"I once saw a little child crawl up on this old lady's lap and ask her, 'What did you do when you were a little girl?' And the woman said, 'I lived on a big plantation.

But it is neither crude oil from Indonesia's biggest fields nor palm oil from its biggest plantations that has really brought prosperity to Riau over the past two years.