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  2. Agriculture in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    For the most part, plantations in Costa Rica are monocultures. These plantations (e.g. Dole , Del Monte , Chiquita ) primarily grow bananas, pineapples, sugar, coffee, and ornamental plants. Many crops cultivated through plantation farming are usually genetically modified to improve and hasten growth and increase resistance to pests and diseases.

  3. Coffee production in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    A coffee plantation in the Orosí valley. Coffee production has played a key role in Costa Rica's history and continues to be important to the country's economy.In 2006, coffee was Costa Rica's number three export, [1] after being the number one cash crop export for several decades.

  4. History of modern banana plantations in the Americas

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    Minor C. Keith won the right to build a trans-Isthmus railroad through Costa Rica in 1871. In 1876, a New York-based sea captain named Lorenzo Dow Baker returned from a voyage to the Orinoco River, and stopping in Jamaica bought 160 stems of bananas in the hopes that he could recoup losses from his voyage by selling them in Philadelphia. His ...

  5. Stone spheres of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Before the arrival of the Compañía Bananera de Costa Rica, a branch of the United Fruit Company, and banana plantations in the 1930s, there was dense vegetation in this area. Resources available to Precolumbian inhabitants in this alluvial plain consisted of riverine and ocean resources, including mangrove forests located in the Terraba and ...

  6. Banana plantation - Wikipedia

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    Banana plants may grow with varying degrees of success in diverse climatic conditions, but commercial banana plantations are primarily found in equatorial regions, in banana exporting countries. The four leading banana export countries worldwide are Ecuador, Costa Rica, Philippines, and Colombia. Ecuador provides more than 33% of global banana ...

  7. Guácimo District - Wikipedia

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    Guácimo is a district of the Guácimo canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] This rural town on the east coast of the country has many banana and pineapple plantations. The area is not much visited by tourists. [citation needed]

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