what is the difference between a plantation and a farm?

Answer 1

A plantation is where vegetables and fruits grow and a farm is where you raise animals.

Answer 2

Plantations normally have monocultures, i.e. just one product is planted, like cotton, or even pine trees for christmas, or other trees for wood. A farm is a place where many different kinds of plants are cultivated for market, for stock feed and, more than likely, animals are also kept for meat or wool (sheep), milk and meat (cattle) or horses are bred, pigs also, one can even have a fish farm!
go to encyplodia I grew up on a farm in the South, so it isn't just the way you refer to a farm in the South.

A plantation has a large house...usually mansion-like. There were often a string of family houses - a guest house is very common - and houses for any grown children that married and were raising a family on the plantation as well. There are also slave quarters, and often two churches...one for the family and one for the slaves.

Plantations are usually synonomous with cotton or indigo, but crops were also grown on plantations. All plantations had large gardens to substain the family and the slaves.

Plantation have slaves, farms don't. So, true plantations in America are no more, except in places where they are more like museums than an actual way of life.

Answer 3

We currently have other uses for plantation, there are tree plantations. So the single crop concept is still a working definition with industrial plantations. Coffee, rubber, sugar cane, olive oil and cacao are all still grown on plantations by corporations. Even historically home plantations raised crops for investment not just for the family livelihood and subsistence. The crop is usually a tree or shrub rather than grain. The Romans had a similar concept of huge estates that exported high value products of wine or olive oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifundia
The Spanish use the word Hacienda in a similar way.

There may still be agricultural estates worked by resident labor in the older sense of the word. Don't people still share crop?

The use that I think is lost is the one of colonizing; the Plymouth Plantation.

Farm comes to us from the English with the context of tenant. Farmers did not usually own their own land. It was farmed out. The manor house had the home farm and tenant farms. Farming in this sense is for family support.

Answer 4

I grew up on a farm in the South, so it isn't just the way you refer to a farm in the South.

A plantation has a large house...usually mansion-like. There were often a string of family houses - a guest house is very common - and houses for any grown children that married and were raising a family on the plantation as well. There are also slave quarters, and often two churches...one for the family and one for the slaves.

Plantations are usually synonomous with cotton or indigo, but crops were also grown on plantations. All plantations had large gardens to substain the family and the slaves.

Plantation have slaves, farms don't. So, true plantations in America are no more, except in places where they are more like museums than an actual way of life.

Answer 5

From what I can make out from the wiki link a plantation tends to be a farm on a hge scale.

Answer 6

Plantations normally have monocultures, i.e. just one product is planted, like cotton, or even pine trees for christmas, or other trees for wood. A farm is a place where many different kinds of plants are cultivated for market, for stock feed and, more than likely, animals are also kept for meat or wool (sheep), milk and meat (cattle) or horses are bred, pigs also, one can even have a fish farm!

Answer 7

The area of the country you are in. In the South big lots of land were called plantations and in the North they are called farms, out West they are usually a ranch. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

You can have a tea plantation and a tobacco plantation.I reckon it just has the one produce. Where as farms have various crops

Answer 9

I don't know..but I think a plantation only grows one thing, while a farm grows a variety of things, plus it has animals.

Answer 10

answer is on your question Vishal, blended farming is taking distinctive plant life in same container sawing them in strips. advantages are a million. If one crop fails different one helps. 2. some ailment and bugs have an interest in one crop extra advantageous than different; so it is going to become 'catch' planting. 3. Planting approximately 10% taller plant life in shorter plant life provides earnings for birds to parch and consume bugs around hem. (combination the seeds and observed.) 4. Many vegetables could nicely be planted in separate uncooked in same container to get illnesses unfastened many vegetables on the marketplace. Plantation is for super fruit trees frequently one form.