And what a stylish alternative to curtains plantation shutters make.

The latest sign of prosperity - and rising house prices - in the shires has to be plantation shutters.

As a fresh, airy alternative to drapes, plantation shutters - with slatted, not solid, panels - are proving popular.

Gentrification has arrived if more than 40 per cent of properties in a road have plantation shutters.

Great for large families or groups of friends, it has four bedrooms, terracotta tiled floors and plantation shutters that open on to the verandas, gardens and pool area.

It was a working rice plantation up to about 1914.

The material and ethical relics revealed large-scale rice plantation and other agricultural activities, hurdle style architecture, paddling and boating and respecting birds and sun.

Beneath limestone mountains spiralled with bamboo forests and rice plantations, villagers sell sesame and chillies, air-dried flying squirrel and cassava.

But six families with large rice plantations refused to go, even though the area was already marked out as indigenous land in 1993 when they moved in.

The coastal rice plantations never recovered from the war.

His family's main source of income was a tobacco plantation.

About five hours a day are spent in the saddle, travelling through tobacco plantations, passing waterfalls, and occasionally staying in local homes.

The houses were built with sun baked bricks, and surrounded by tobacco plantations and olives.

It also thrives on its rice, corn and tobacco plantations.

Until that time, most of the work on the tobacco plantations was done by indentured servants.

A tropical tree plantation can extract as much as 10 tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere but destroying a hectare of rainforest releases 250 tonnes immediately.

The local government holds a tree plantation program through which residents may have trees planted in their sidewalks at no cost.

Activities such as tree plantation, habitat restoration, clean-up drive and awareness campaigns are also conducted.

Another study evaluated the use of exotic pine and cypress tree plantations as a forest restoration technique within the park.

Some habitat losses have been offset by the establishment of exotic tree plantations, where this species can nest, but which generally lack a sufficient prey base.