What effect did the development of plantations have on colonized societies?

What will be an ideal response?

Plantations were created by converting and reorganizing resources so that colonists could reap profit. Plantations diverted production from local to foreign demand, used the best infrastructure (such as land or water) for commercial purposes, and forced the peasantry onto inadequate land or into slave-like labor conditions. As a result, many colonized societies lost the capacity to feed themselves, and most of their local enterprise and production activity has been forced into the informal sector.