The Large Industrialized American Crop Farm
A Mid-Latitude Plantation Variant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7783489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard F Gregor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151 |
| Publication date | 1970-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/213678 |
| OpenAlex | W1993676714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
PROBABLY no other form of advanced agricultural activity has been more closely associated with a particular area than plantation farming with the tropics. Explanations for this marked latitudinal preference have ranged from the early emphasis on tropical determinism-namely, that the plantation has been the white man's solution to his supposed inability to do manual work in the tropics-to the more recent stress on indirect tropical influences on farming technology, such as the need for advanced processing of perishable tropical commodities before their export to mid-latitude markets.' But recent research seems to have discredited the older, physiological arguments for tropical locations, and the spread of a highly rationalized farming technology is making it increasingly difficult to assign a strictly tropical character to plantations because of the industrial nature of their operations. Characteristics such as crop specialization, advanced cultivation and harvesting techniques, large operating units, management centralization, labor specialization, large-scale production, and heavy capital investment, which were once considered the hallmark of the tropical plantation, are increasingly being associated with extratropical farms. Not surprisingly, the tendency of large industrialized farms in cooler
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2022 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |