Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops ...

No sugar plantations are active on Kauai today, but to learn more about this industry that shaped the Garden Isle, visit Grove Farm Museum in Lihue. The Grove Farm was sold to George Norton Wilcox ...

Werikhe proposed a law zoning factories, requiring them to have over 100 acres of land for their garden and demonstrate ...

In January, Alexander & Baldwin announced it would shut down Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. after 145 years in business. The closure of the 36,000-acre plantation meant the loss of 650 jobs and ...

The largest sugar plantation in eastern Florida when it operated from 1821 to 1835, Bulow is now an important site for scholars researching the archaeology of enslavement. During excavations from ...

The Estate Whim Plantation Museum chronicles the lives of the people who lived and worked on the 18th-century Estate Whim plantation. It's the only sugar plantation museum in the Virgin Islands.

Tobacco, cotton, coffee, rice and sugar plantation owners needed cheap labor and the slave traders eagerly complied, transporting more than 12 million Africans to America. This transatlantic trade ...

Removed from the more crowded resort areas, the Waimea Plantation Cottages are located on the southwestern side of Kauai. Modeled after the original sugar plantations that covered the island in ...

Products such as rum and refined sugar were produced in plantation on Caribbean islands like Antigua. The refineries were very hot and the work turning sugar cane into valuable finished goods was ...