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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coffee was introduced into the central highlands in the 1840s, and quickly became the most important cash crop .
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Poppies are a major cash crop .
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Potatoes are the only cash crop though even some of these are used for fodder.
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Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.
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Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop ?
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Wine formed the most important cash crop , while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.