cash crop

NOUN
  1. a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
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How To Use cash crop In A Sentence

  • Sugarcane, tobacco, and cotton are grown as cash crops, in addition to chilies, oilseeds, and pulses (legumes).
  • This SEWA farm, like many in Gujarat, grows mangoes, tea, spices and other cash crops.
  • They have a fallback in subsistence production and other cash crops, such as cocoa and copra.
  • Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
  • By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
  • The government had introduced cash crops of tea and coffee to land previously used to produce food. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once they have achieved that goal, they raise a cash crop.
  • By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
  • In this buffer zone around the park, people survive through subsistence farming and cash crops such as cotton.
  • They are cleaning up, and could make even more money if they switched to a different cash crop.
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