plantation
... 1715, developing the island into an important naval base overseeing Indian Ocean trade, and establishing a plantation economy of sugar cane. The British captured the island in 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritius/a_fg.html
plantation
... century, but it finally was confirmed as a British possession in 1783. The island's sugar plantation economy was converted to small farm landholdings in the mid 19th century. Much of this ...
www.exxun.com/Montserrat/a_fg.html
plantation
... sugar-based economy gave way to coffee and cocoa in the 19th century - all grown with plantation slave labor, a form of which lingered into the 20th century. While independence was achieved ...
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/a_fg.html
plantation
total: 1,360 km paved: 33 km unpaved: 1,327 km note: includes 800 km of private plantation roads (2002)
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/g_tr.html
plantation
... processing, textiles and apparel, food and beverages, port construction, telecommunications, and insurance and banking. In 2006, plantation crops made up only about 15% of exports (compared with more than 90% in 1970 ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/e_ec.html
plantations
... succeeded by the English who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/a_fg.html
plantations
... The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
plantations
... 9,000 UN forces (UNOCI) in Cote d'Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations
www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/i_ti.html
plantations
... also trafficked within Cameroon for forced labor in sweatshops, bars, restaurants, and on tea and cocoa plantations; children are trafficked into Cameroon from neighboring states for forced labor in agriculture, fishing, street ...
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/i_ti.html
plantations
... the country as well as driven out migrants from neighboring states who worked in Ivorian cocoa plantations; the March 2007 peace deal between Ivorian rebels and the government brought significant numbers of ...
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/i_ti.html
plantations
... next several centuries. Large numbers of African slaves were imported to work the coffee and sugar plantations, and Havana became the launching point for the annual treasure fleets bound for Spain from ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
plantations
... 1.435-m gauge (140 km electrified) note: an additional 7,742 km of track is used by sugar plantations; about 65% of this track is standard gauge; the rest is narrow gauge (2006
www.exxun.com/Cuba/g_tr.html
plantations
Ghana struggles to accommodate returning nationals who worked in the cocoa plantations and escaped fighting in Cote d'Ivoire
www.exxun.com/Ghana/i_ti.html
plantations
... settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants from India to work the sugar plantations. This ethnocultural divide has persisted and has led to turbulent politics. Guyana achieved independence from ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/a_fg.html
plantations
... Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to Ivorian cocoa plantations; UN sanctions ban Liberia from exporting diamonds and timber
www.exxun.com/Liberia/i_ti.html
plantations
note: most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board
www.exxun.com/Niue/e_ec.html
plantations
... was finally ceded to the UK in 1814. Even after the abolition of slavery on its plantations in 1834, Saint Lucia remained an agricultural island, dedicated to producing tropical commodity crops. Self ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/a_fg.html
plantations
total: 5,978 km narrow gauge: 4,578 km 1.067-m gauge; 1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations (2006)
www.exxun.com/Sudan/g_tr.html
planted
... in irrigated oases and large gas and oil resources. One-half of its irrigated land is planted in cotton; formerly it was the world's 10th-largest producer. Poor harvests in recent ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/e_ec.html
planting
... damage and loss, including losses of $225 million in livestock and 55,000 homes. The attack prevented planting of crops in Eritrea's most productive region, causing food production to drop by 62 ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
plants
... the US with which American Samoa conducts most of its commerce. Tuna fishing and tuna processing plants are the backbone of the private sector, with canned tuna the primary export. Transfers from ...
www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/e_ec.html
plants
... of icefish, an antarctic fish lacking hemoglobin; ozone depletion earlier was shown to harm one-celled antarctic marine plants; in 2002, significant areas of ice shelves disintegrated in response to regional warming
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/b_mp.html
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