ABSTRACT
Plantation crops are a group of commercial crops cultivated extensively over a large area of tropics and subtropics zones. Plantation crops comprise a large number of crops like coconut, areca nut, oil palm, cashew, tea, coffee, rubber, and cocoa. Their total coverage is comparatively less as compared to the other fruit crops and mostly grown by the farmers with smallholdings. These crops play an important role owing to their export potential values, domestic requirements, employment generation, and poverty alleviation, especially in the rural sector. Plantation crops have a unique role in the national economy owing to the source of basic raw materials for a number of industries and form the mainstay of the agrarian economy of the nation and thus considered as the lifeline of many states of India.
