Sentence examples for its plantations from inspiring English sources

Last year it began selling control of its plantations to workers to allow it to focus on its brands.

Fair trade campaign group Banana Link says Fresh Del Monte sacked all 4,300 of its workers on its Monte Libano plantations in Costa Rica in 1999 and re-employed people on reduced wages and benefits, a model it later rolled out across all its plantations.

In 2003 Chiquita became the only American company voluntarily to admit to the Department of Justice that it had paid protection money to Colombian paramilitary forces surrounding its plantations.

Coffee managers think at least 20% of its plantations have been smashed.

Typhoo says it works closely with all three certification bodies to improve conditions on its plantations.

ISA does not accept there is a connection between CKD and working conditions on its plantations.

Through the 1990s it developed its plantation business in south western Western Australia including the Great Southern region (after which the company is named), leasing woodlots to investors on land owned by Great Southern.

Given the abuses alleged by the Wall Street Journal, Felda should not be allowed to expand its plantation holdings until it can prove that it complies with international standards for the fair treatment of workers and respect for human rights.

The good news in this failure is that it happened before Great Southern could expand its plantation — as planned — to 247,000 acres.

The book's best feature is its plantation pageantry, along with the blindingly swoony reactions it prompts on all sides of the social and racial divide.

To defend its empire, to construct its rudimentary systems of communication and transport, and to man its plantation economies, the British used forced labour on a gigantic scale.