种植园作为过去殖民地经济体系的产物和热带附属地的农业企业,在欠发达国家的经济发展理论和计划中一向处于一种有争论的地位。尽管种植园具有不容置疑的盈利能力,但因其起源于殖民地时期,以及其传统的面向出口和经常是单一经营的特点,它们却受到多方的非难。然而,这种非难大部份是针对种植园过分的作物专门化,而不是针对种植园制度本身。这种非难所根据的论点,就是人们常见的商品价格不稳定,所谓商品贸易条件长期不 Plantation Farming As a product of past colonial economic systems and a tropical affiliate, agricultural enterprises have always been in a controversial position in the theory and plan of economic development in less-developed countries. Despite the indisputable profitability of plantations, they are subject to multiple non-excesses due to their origins in the colonial period and their traditional export-oriented and often singularly operating characteristics. However, most of this blame is directed at over-crop specialization of plantations, not at the plantation system itself. The argument based on this kind of calamity is that the common commodity prices are not stable. The so-called terms of commodity trade are long-term