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The term plantation crop refers to those crops which are cultivated on an extensive scale in a contiguous area, owned and managed by an individual or a company. The crops include tea, coffee, rubber, cocoa, coconut, areca nut, oil palm, palmyra and cashew. These are high-value commercial crops of greater economic importance and play a vital role in improving the Indian economy, especially in view of their export potential, employment generation and poverty alleviation, particularly in the rural sector. Coconut, cashew nut, cocoa, areca nut, oil palm and palmyra come under the Ministry of Agriculture while tea, coffee and rubber are dealt with by the Ministry of Commerce. Arecanut or betel nut is an important cash crop in the Western Ghats, East Coast and North Eastern regions of India. Cashew has assumed an important place in the Indian economy. Cashew cultivation is confined mainly to peninsular India.