CASH CROP


Meaning of CASH CROP in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Coffee was introduced into the central highlands in the 1840s, and quickly became the most important cash crop .

Poppies are a major cash crop .

Potatoes are the only cash crop though even some of these are used for fodder.

Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.

Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop ?

Wine formed the most important cash crop , while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.

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