A cash crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term cash crop is applied exclusively to the agricultural production of plants; animal agriculture is not a part of the terminology. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from subsistence crops, ...
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(from the article `Asia`) Asia is noted for several plantation cash crops, of which the most important are tea, rubber, palm oil, coconuts, and sugarcane. Jute, a commercial ...
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n] - a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
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what a farmer raises, crop or livestock, to sell for money
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noun a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
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Crop grown solely for sale rather than for the farmer's own use, for example, coffee, cotton, or sugar beet. Many developing world countries grow cash crops to meet their debt repayments rather than grow food for their own people. In 1990 Uganda, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and Somalia were the countries ...
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An agricultural crop grown to provide revenue from an off-farm source.
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