Plantation (Civ5)

Plantation
Worker improvement
Introduced in Civilization V
Requires	Calendar
Effect
+1 Gold Gold for Incense, Wine, Cotton, Sugar, Spices, Silk, Citrus, Dyes, and Cocoa. +2 Food Food, -1 Production Production for Bananas. An additional +1 Food Food with Fertilizer. +1 Culture Culture with Oral Tradition.
Improves
Bananas
Bananas
Dyes
Dyes
Silk
Silk
Spices
Spices
Sugar
Sugar
Cotton
Cotton
Wine
Wine
Incense
Incense
Citrus
Citrus
Cocoa
Cocoa

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A Cotton Plantation in Civilization V

Game Info

Advanced agricultural improvement. Requires Calendar.

• Constructed on:
  • Bananas bonus resource
• Access:
  • Luxury resources: Incense, Wine, Cotton, Sugar, Spices, Silk, Citrus, Dyes, Cocoa
• Effect:
  • +1 Gold Gold; +2 Food Food, -1 Production Production for Bananas Bananas resource
  • +1 additional Food Food after researching Fertilizer
  • +1 Culture Culture with Oral Tradition Religious belief

Strategy

Plantations allow your empire to make use of a wide variety of luxury resources. They can also be used to improve Bananas resources, but this isn't worth the trouble on many occasions. Even though a Plantation gives +2 Food Food, building one requires your Workers to cut down the jungle first. As jungle itself provides 1 Food Food and 1 Production Production, and the Plantation loses 1 Production Production, building a Plantation nets only +1 Food Food, or +1 Production Production on a hill. At the same time, you will lose the 2 Science Science potential from the jungle, so consider carefully whether getting 1 extra Food Food from the tile or 2 Science Science from the native jungle is more important to you.

You should also keep in mind that if you have Oral Tradition, you will have to cut down the jungle to gain the bonus Culture Culture.

Civilopedia entry

A plantation is a fancy name for a farm. It is generally applied to large estates located in semi-tropical or tropical locations, and especially those which grow crops for export rather than for local consumption. The term has acquired an unsavory flavor because of its association with slavery in the United States and the Caribbean, but there's nothing inherently evil about a well-run plantation which employs free workers.