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Farm on plain somehow filled with rubbish (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

plantation

'farm' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'plain somehow filled with rubbish' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'rubbish' could be 'tat' (low-quality items or material) and 'tat' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'plain' is 'plani' which is present in the remaining letters.
The remaining letters 'on' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'on' is the link.

(Other definitions for plantation that I've seen before include "land for crops" , "settlement" , "Cotton, slave, estate" , "Coffee-growing estate" , "growth area" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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