There natives were recruited to work in gold mines and on copra plantations.
Carroll operated a copra plantation in Papua New Guinea during the 1960s and 1970s.
Germans managed several highly profitable copra plantations and built a road to transport the goods.
Mr. Kona began to realize his dream for a museum of war materiel while still working on a copra plantation.
Though some on the island became quite wealthy with the development of copra plantations, Kavieng itself remained a tiny settlement, with as few as eighty residents.
By 1949, the Malley family was spending three months per year in Fiji on the copra plantation they bought.
A small branch government office was established; and local Japanese settlers opened a small copra plantation on the island.
Manra was formerly a functioning copra plantation, though it is no longer.
Dr. Williams managed Tetiaroa as a residence and a copra plantation.
In 1966, the British government purchased the privately owned copra plantations and closed them.