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Definition of cash crop
: a readily salable crop (such as cotton or tobacco) produced or gathered primarily for market
Examples of cash crop in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web The sugarcane had been introduced during slavery as a cash crop.
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Padma Lakshmi, Time, "The Food World Needs to Listen to the Real Cultural Experts, Not Just Use Their Ingredients," 24 June 2020 But time-traveling also carries a risk involving the game’s real cash crop: turnips.
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Alexis Ong, Ars Technica, "How Animal Crossing’s fake industries let players afford real rent amid COVID-19," 6 May 2020 Thus, supported by good rainfall, tropical weather and mid-altitude plateaus, Kerala was promoted as the best location for producing spices and cash crops for decades.
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S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, "Decentralisation and equitable growth: Two lessons for India from the Covid-19 pandemic," 3 May 2020 But mangrove forests and marshes around the world are increasingly vanishing to make way for cash crops like palm oil, according to the new study.
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Shola Lawal, New York Times, "Fireflies Have a Mating Problem: The Lights Are Always On," 3 Feb. 2020 Their flavor and amenability to simple aquaculture techniques made them a traditional cash crop for Thai, Malaysian, and Vietnamese farmers, who raise them in large outdoor ponds.
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Lee H. Goldberg, Ars Technica, "Can gender-bending Israeli superprawns help feed the world?," 10 May 2020 That is because farmers usually plant wheat after harvesting their cash crops at that end of summer.
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Ryan Dezember, WSJ, "The U.S. Hasn’t Planted This Little Wheat in More Than a Century," 17 Jan. 2020 Farmers across the country are considering the new cash crop.
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BostonGlobe.com, "“I remain opposed to industrial hemp in South Dakota because of the impact it will have on public safety and law enforcement’s ability to enforce drug laws,” Noem said.," 7 Nov. 2019 To reduce hunting of wild meat, some researchers offer goats to local people or help them farm coffee and other cash crops.
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Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, "Primatologists work to keep great apes safe from coronavirus," 1 May 2020
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