The plantations are almost entirely owned by the government and Europeans, but the rice mills are in the hands of Chinese.
A few plantations are owned and managed by Europeans.
It is a small bitter species common in upland pastures and fir plantations early in the season.
His attention to all trade questions was close and constant; he was a member of the council of trade and plantations appointed in 1670, and was its president from 1672 to 1676.
Improvement contracts are granted for uncultivated bush districts, where one fourth of the produce goes to the landlord, and for plantations of fig-trees, olive-trees and vines, half of the produce of which belongs to the landlord, who at the end of ten years reimburses the tenant for a part of the improvements effected.