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Question
Discuss how the changes in forest management in the colonial period affected the following groups of people:
Plantation owners
Solution
The effect of changes in forest management in the colonial period on —
Plantation owners: They were also a happy lot like the timer-trading firms. The displaced nomadic and pastoralist tribes were often recruited by plantation owners to work on their farms. Plantation owners made big profits, making the workers work for long hours and at low wages. Due to the new forest laws, the workers could not even protest as this was their sole means of earning a livelihood.
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