Sentences with phrase «own plantation»

AS one out - of - pocket investor left the Pulpwood Plantations meeting last week, he noted that the heads of the fallen bid to take over Great Southern timber schemes could have done something to ease the pain.

The Pulpwood Plantations proposal to take over Great Southern timber schemes was withdrawn today before the official vote was to take place, as attention now turns towards rival bidder Gunns.

Shares in Sino - Forest, a TSX - listed company that operates forestry plantations in China, have plummeted 68 % since a research firm issued an extensive report on Thursday accusing the company of committing a fraud of «stratospheric» proportions.

Before Washington, DC became the capital city of the United States, it was a sprawling, 100 - square - mile plot of plantations, forests, and hills.

Pinckney soon took charge of some of the plantations her father owned in South Carolina.

After three months, employees qualify for free health care, provided by a full - time nurse and a part - time doctor at the plantation's infirmary, along with 15 paid vacation days a year.

The eucalyptus - lined path that leads to Porras's office winds past a medical clinic, a schoolhouse, and an HR office — facilities that are unheard of on most Guatemalan plantations.

Shares in Western Australian plantation timber manager Integrated Tree Cropping Ltd recommenced trading on the Australian Stock Exchange today.

That year, despite a chorus of naysayers insisting that Guatemala's coffee industry was dead, Porras borrowed $ 1.25 million from his father to purchase El Faro, one of the country's many abandoned plantations.

The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have jumped 20 per cent in five years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.

Born in 1867, her parents and older siblings had been slaves on a Louisiana plantation.

To set El Faro apart, he created a plantation that blended traditional farming methods with sustainable agriculture techniques and a progressive culture.

Last fall, after buying a second plantation, he asked the company to invest $ 150,000, which he used to build 10 solar - powered houses and an apartment complex for workers.

The plantation mixes centuries - old traditions — most of the work is done by hand — and the latest agricultural methods.

One day last December, Estuardo Porras flew above the mountains of central Guatemala in a helicopter, passing over picturesque Lake Atitlan and a steaming volcano on the way to El Faro, his coffee plantation.

Another suggestion would be to use industry reports that are current, and not to use yield analyis that was done on wild grown trees instead of domestic plantation grown trees, pampered and bred for their yield.

Nedlands - based TFS Corporation says a $ 24 million investment from a new Hong Kong institutional investor in its Beyond Carbon sandalwood plantation product has settled.

The most important thing the international community can do is eliminate infected crops, and for this to be realistic, scientists need to invent a new diagnostic test that can very quickly detect the disease in plantations and at quarantine borders.

Sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has confirmed a $ 65 million capital raising to buy - out plantations owned by managed investment schemes.

Sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has reaffirmed its earnings guidance for FY16 after finalising the $ 29 million sale of plantations to a US - based investor.

Nedlands - based TFS Corporation has achieved a record full - year profit of $ 82.5 million, up 48 per cent on the back of increased plantation asset ownership.

Along with George Washington and other Virginia planters, Jefferson grew hemp on his plantation, Monticello.

Redone rooms feature little extras, ranging from flat - panel TVs and iHome clock radios to canvas artwork by famed artist Aldo Luongo and white plantation shutters that add abundant natural light.

The Indonesian state - owned companies in the joint venture with China are construction company PT Wijaya Karya, railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia, toll - road builder PT Jasa Marga and plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII.

Cyclone Hudhud slammed into the coast of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states, tearing down tens of thousands of mud - and - thatch homes, and flattening rice, banana and sugarcane plantations.

Take banana wilt, for example, a devastating bacterial disease wiping out plantations in sub-Saharan Africa.

The receivers of Great Southern will wind up the failed agribusiness» 2007 plantation scheme after leading candidates withdrew their offers.

Sino - Forest manages tree plantations in China, sells logs and standing timber and manufactured engineered - wood products.

But Big Mike's popularity led to its doom, when a pandemic whipped through these plantations during the 1950s and «60's.

Up until the 1960s, Gros Michel, or «Big Mike,» was the prime variety grown in commercial plantations.

Thousands of hectares of tropical forests in Latin America were converted into vast Gros Michel plantations.

They continue to own and run the plantation today, eight generations later.

The sound that you're listenin'to Is from my guitar that's named Lucille I'm very crazy about Lucille Lucille took me from the plantation Or you might say brought me fame - «Lucille»

But in the end you are on the plantation.

But, as he flew out the door he had time to reveal that while others had been sellers of Great Southern shares during the great plantation stock investment melt - down between 2000 and 2002, he was buying.

Plantation timber investment manager Great Southern Plantations has put pen to paper on a lucrative contract with a leading Japanese company for the export of hardwood woodchips, worth in excess of $ 130 million.

He moved a plantation house — believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad — to a new location to prevent its demolition.

What it's about: A mixture of live action and animation, «Song of the South» encompasses several stories about living on a plantation during the Reconstruction Era.

What it's about: Based on the acclaimed play, «South Pacific» is about a nurse who falls in love with an older French plantation owner with mixed - race children she has trouble accepting.

Caroline Russell, CEO of Malaysia's homegrown tea maker Boh Plantations, told CNBC in an interview with «Managing Asia» last month: «Malaysians are beginning to feel the pinch after what has been a difficult year for Malaysians, especially with the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) in April.»

Caroline Russell, third - generation CEO of Boh Plantations, shares how Malaysia's largest tea producer first settled in misty Cameron Highlands and is now advancing into global markets.

But «nature's pretty random,» Freeman says, and designing office plants in this way creates what's «effectively a plantation, no more natural than a field of corn.»

At the moment, around 80 percent of Boh Plantations» tea pluckers are non-Malaysians.

Homegrown tea producer Boh Plantations believes that the numerous risks threatening Malaysia's economy will not affect demand for its products.

This is not to say that Boh Plantations isn't feeling the pressure from a toxic mix of headwinds that has seen Malaysia's second - quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth slow to its lowest rate since the third quarter of 2013.

«Tea is a category that is not typically affected by economic downturns,» Caroline Russell, CEO of Boh Plantations, told CNBC's «Managing Asia.»

Kitt, one of history's great triple threats (she was a singer, dancer, and actress, most famous for playing Catwoman in the 1960's «Batman» TV show), was born on a South Carolina plantation in 1927, allegedly the product of a rape.

LOS ANGELES — Insisting that the legal, centuries - long practice of slavery in America could never have limited his personal or artistic ambitions, Kanye West stated Wednesday that if he had been born into captivity, he would have simply escaped the plantation on his motorcycle «the first chance [he] got.»

Here is a coffee plantation virtual reality video shot by Nescafe to give you an example of what you may expect.

Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures Holdings, the world's third largest plantation operator, said on June 6 that it had suspended its chief executive and chief financial officer pending the investigation of «certain transactions» at one of its subsidiaries.