The word "plantations" is correct and usable in written English, though its usage depends on the context.
For example, "Slavery was once a reality on many Southern plantations during the 1800s."
GRAN CANARIA If wrapping up warm for wintry romance isn't your thing, escape for a week in the Canary islands, where winter temperatures are usually around 20C. Gran Canaria, with its rolling sand dunes and lush palm plantations, has a stark beauty and, perhaps more importantly, a smattering of slick spa hotels.
Guns and other manufactured goods were shipped from Europe to the west coast of Africa and exchanged for slaves who were then shipped across the Atlantic to work the plantations.
A further study, published in the American Journal of Kidney Disease, found increased levels of kidney damage in El Salvador's hot, low-lying areas but not in its cooler high-altitude sugar plantations, despite similarities in agrochemical use.
'The presence of 'disturbed and previously logged forest' and 'pine and exotic eucalypt plantations' within the world heritage area is not a sound basis upon which to seek to modify its boundary," the legal group's submission said.
Loutolim is my favourite, surrounded by waterfalls, lush vegetation, whispering monkeys and fruit plantations.
Down in Ciego de Avila, Cuba's best orange-growing province, they claim yields from the organic plantations - still only a small area - are 20% higher.
So I agree, George, it would be wrong to have plantations in the tropics just to make charcoal.
On the ascent from the small town of Trujillo to Venezuela's mountain capital of Mérida, lush tropical scenery dotted with coffee plantations, sugar cane and banana palms gave way to steeply inclined fields still ploughed by oxen, beyond which came the bleak high moorlands or páramos.
It's more than likely that some are descendants of bulbs bred in the mid-19th century by William Backhouse, who hybridised them in the grounds of his austere country house high above Wolsingham, among conifer plantations and windswept moorland at St Johns, on the edge of Pikestone Fell.
Looking over the plantations that give this dry mountainous area a misty blue tint, the agave shortage does seem difficult to imagine.
"The Correa administration seems intent on trying to drill its way to prosperity, which has turned what was once pristine rainforest into a natural sacrifice zone crisscrossed by oil wells, roads and palm plantations," said Kevin Koenig of the group Amazon Watch.
