roça

Brazilian farm

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A roça is a type of farm found in Brazil. Historically, during the colonial period, roças were primarily food farms or gardens located near towns. These were distinct from larger export-oriented enterprises known as fazendas, which were more comparable to slave plantations in the Caribbean and the United States. While fazendas focused on cash crops like sugar and later coffee, roças served to supply local food needs.12

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history of Latin America
The early period
…types of agricultural establishments emerged: roças, which were food farms or truck gardens near towns, and fazendas, or export enterprises. The last were mainly sugar plantations, which were not yet very prosperous, even though conditions for sugar growing and transport were ideal in many places, because of lack of capital…
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…types of agricultural establishments emerged: roças, which were food farms or truck gardens near towns, and fazendas, or export enterprises. The last were mainly sugar plantations, which were not yet very prosperous, even though conditions for sugar growing and transport were ideal in many places, because of lack of capital…
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