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Cash crop   /kæʃ krɑp/   Listen
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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"Cash crop" Quotes from Famous Books



... Consequently the economy has shown little progress in recent years in overcoming a severe setback brought on by civil war in the late 1980s. About 85% of the work force is involved in subsistence farming and fishing. Cotton is the major cash crop, accounting for at least half of exports. Chad is highly dependent on foreign aid, especially food credits, given chronic food shortages in several regions. Of all the Francophone countries in Africa, Chad has benefited the least ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... from traveling about is that the extensive cultivation of tobacco, in spite of the fact that it is the cash crop and perhaps also the most profitable, is really a drawback in that other possibilities are obscured. It may be that the line of progress will not be to abandon tobacco, but to introduce more intensive cultivation, for the average man, white or black, ...
— The Negro Farmer • Carl Kelsey


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