| 11. | Rice, formerly the growth engine, has been replaced by plantation crops, horticulture, fisheries and livestock.
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| 12. | Plantation crops usually need processing immediately after harvesting.
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| 13. | Other plantation crops like tea, coffee and cashews have been introduced lately and are becoming popular.
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| 14. | Presently, it is a regional station of the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute ( CPCRI ).
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| 15. | Abbalagere was previously a Tobacco growing village, but now farmers are growing more Aracanut and plantation crops.
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| 16. | The first important plantation crop was tobacco.
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| 17. | They can be pests of plantation crops.
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| 18. | Another plantation crop, sugarcane, was more successful.
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| 19. | Like most other parts of Kerala, coconut is the most widely cultivated plantation crop in Mogral Puthur.
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| 20. | Plantation crops are affected by pollution and soil erosion, low water availability and quality, and soil chemical imbalance.
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