What is a Eucalyptus Forestry?

Eucalpytus is a diverse genus of flowering trees of more than 700 species. They are often known as Gum Trees, and for their beneficial economic impact on poor populations. They are grown as plantations to provide raw wood materials & props for gold mining.

However they also suck up from 80 liters a day to 200 hundred liters of water a day, depending on the size of the trees. Not only do you need a lot of water to grow them, these trees also release a chemical into the soil that would kill surrounding plant lives.

Some of the Eucalyptus species also attracted attention from global development researchers and environmentalists. Such species have desirable traits such as being fast-growing sources of wood,oil that can be used for cleaning and functions as a natural insecticide producing , or an ability to be used to drain swamps and thereby reduce the risk of malaria.

What is a Coffee plantation?

 

 The economy of Brazil Coffee Plantation has played a prime role in the politics of Brazil, as it is the pride of Brazil on which a big bulk of the Brazilian population lives. Brazil also earned fame in the world market because of the rich productions of coffee.

The first coffee plantation in Brazil occurred in 1727 when Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta smuggled seeds from the germ plasm originally taken from Yemen to Batavia, from French Guiana.
*French Guiana = An overseas region of France.
*Yemen = A country that is located in the Middle East.
*Batavia = The name of past Jakarta.

By the 1800s, Brazil's harvests turned coffee from an elite indulgence to a drink for the masses. Like most other countries, Brazil cultivates coffee as a commercial commodity, however relied heavily on slave labor from Africa for the viability of the plantations until the abolition of slavery in 1888.
For many decades in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil was the biggest producer of coffee and a virtual monopolist in the trade. But a policy of maintaining high prices soon opened opportunities to other nations, such as Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam & other countries, which are now second only to Brazil as the major coffee producer in the world.



What is a Rubber Plantation about?

- The plantations of Fordlandia and Belterra were two attempts by the Ford Motor Company from 1928-1945 to establish a permanent rubber plantation presence in Brazil.

- The goal of setting up the Ford Motor Company of Brazil was two-fold: to supply Ford’s internal demand for rubber as well as to provide a better way of life for the Brazilians who lived and worked on the plantations.

- The plantations were testaments to the innovations of agriculture and industry related to commercial cultivation in the jungle, but they were also marked with failures such as not understanding native culture and trying to impose a Dearborn-like work schedule and life on the native Brazilians.