Last year it began selling control of its plantations to workers to allow it to focus on its brands.
To maintain their force in Java, now numbering 100,000 troops, the Dutch gained control of lucrative Sumatran plantations, and oil and coal installations, and in Java, control of all deep water ports.
A successful bid would give him control of 543,000 acres of plantation forest, 26 sawmills and board plants, 4 pulp and paper mills and 13 packaging plants, employing 10,000 workers in New Zealand, Australia and Asia.
The deal gives Itochu, Japan's third-largest trading company, control of Dole's banana plantations and other fruit farms, canneries and processing centers in Asia, including China, the Philippines and Thailand.
Full-scale civil war erupted in 1962, when leftwing guerrilla organisations, including the Farc, ELN (National Liberation Army) and M-19 (The 19 April Movement) clashed repeatedly with the army, rightwing paramilitaries and each other for control of land, funds and drug plantations.
The main purpose of attacking Brunei Bay was to secure it as a base for the British Pacific Fleet, and also gain control of oil fields and rubber plantations in the area.
"New rural societies entered the English imagination, under the shadow of political and economic control: the plantation worlds of Kipling and Maugham and early Orwell; the trading worlds of Conrad and Joyce Cary".
But this influx created resentment among Malays, who lost control of the economy to British plantation owners and Chinese businesses.
Structured as a set of linked short stories, "Ancestor Stones" begins when Abie, a young woman of African descent, leaves England and travels to Sierra Leone to assume control of her grandfather's coffee plantation.
That cost the guerrillas their lucrative control of the region's rich banana plantations.
