Plantation vs. Harvesting — What's the Difference?

A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.

The act or process of gathering a crop.

An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.

The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.

Colonization or settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship

The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.

An area under cultivation.

The time or season of such gathering

A group of cultivated trees or plants.

The result or consequence of an action

A large estate or farm on which crops are raised, often by resident workers.

To gather (a crop)

A newly established settlement; a colony.

To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation

An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.

To gather a crop from (land, for example)

(historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.

To receive or collect (energy)

(historical) A colony established thus.

To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action)

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

To gather a crop.

The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

(agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.

An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

(by extension) The gathering of any resource.

An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

Present participle of harvest

A newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America);

The gathering of a ripened crop

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth