The word 'planters' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can refer to a person who plants or cultivates a crop, or to a container used for planting and growing flowers, herbs, or vegetables. Example: The planters in my garden are overflowing with colorful flowers. I hired a team of experienced planters to help me grow a variety of crops on my farm.
The success of the sugar industry and the wealth of the planters was, of course, built on the appalling inhumanity of slavery.
The estates required a huge workforce and, with no indigenous population, the planters sought slaves from Africa.
Most days they travel out in convoys of brown armored trucks, posting letters at night in the villages to assure the local Afghans they are there to protect them, collecting fingerprints from would-be mine planters, resolving tribal disputes, meeting elders and trying to gain their trust so the villagers will pass on information when the fighting season begins in earnest.
The coffee planters did not want to give them up.
The planters would sell their slaves to Brazilian farmers.
The group was led, the police report says, by the local planters.
If it takes the direction of vengeance, Mr Johnson, whose own mind has been embittered against the planters by family injuries, may break loose from his Cabinet; but if, as is much more probable, it takes the direction of over reverence for the policy of the dead, he must coerce his own tendencies until time and the sobering effect of great power have extinguished them.
In Indonesia this would mean putting palm-oil plantations not on forest land but on degraded land, of which it has perhaps 40m hectares available.That, in turn, will mean facing down the planters, who prefer to bag forest land for a windfall of timber.
In freer-market India small firms have sprung up which transplant seedlings using mechanical planters.
Burkinabe planters feared that they would lose their land.
Some members of the St Peter's congregation have in turn set up another plant in Hastings.Most church planters explain that they felt called by God to move.
