<Li> Business and economics portal </Li> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops grown on large farms called plantations . Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income . Prominent plantation crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and species in the genus Indigofera, used to produce indigo dye . </P>

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