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单词 cocoa plantation
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cocoa plantation
a. General attributive and objective, as cocoa farmer, cocoa plantation, cocoa trade, etc.
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1749 London Evening Post 12 Oct. 1/3 That Insurrection proceeds only from the Advantage which divers Persons have found in carrying on the Cocoa Trade themselves.
1762 Amer. Gazetteer I. sig. E10v There are from 500 to 1000 or 2000 trees in a walk or cocoa plantation.
1833 A. C. Carmichael Domest. Manners W. Indies I. xxiii. 263 The work of a cocoa estate is nothing compared to that of a sugar estate.
1890 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 7 Nov. 1043/2 The cocoa industry has now become a very important one in this country.
1910 Times 24 May 35/4 Let us hope that cocoa growers may continue indefinitely to reap larger profits year by year.
1959 New Scientist 28 May 1180/3 If it is a cocoa plant, cuttings will be taken from it and propagated in special frames, heated through peat from below.
1973 H. L. Bretton Power & Politics in Afr. xvii. 242 The large-scale cocoa farmer typically employs wage labour drawn mainly from neighboring countries.
1995 M. M. Amin in F. Ruf & P. S. Siswoputranto Cocoa Cycles (1996) ii. 55 A large number of these countries depend heavily on cocoa exports as an important source of foreign exchange income for their development programmes.
2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 May c3/1 The nexus of cocoa production shifted to West Africa in the early 1900s as infestations such as frosty pod rot devastated Latin America's cocoa horticulture.
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