Definition of cash crop
: a readily salable crop (such as cotton or tobacco) produced or gathered primarily for market
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Farah is located along routes used to smuggle opium, Afghanistan’s most lucrative cash crop and a main source of revenue for the Taliban, both directly and through taxation.
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American farmers are promised a new cash crop with an annual value of several hundred million dollars, all because a machine has been invented which solves a problem more than 6,000 years old.
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Until then, the soil needs to recover from seasons of chemicals left from the cash crops planted by a farmer who rented the land from Franciscan Friars at the Shrine of St. Anthony.
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Cannabis has grown into a nearly $7 billion industry, and, by one estimate, is California’s largest cash crop.
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The cannabis industry, which is expected to be worth as much as $7 billion this year, is now California’s largest cash crop, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, known as NORML.
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Too bad for him all of Trump’s friends want to make money off that cash crop.
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And tariffs on soybeans, a cash crop for much of the Midwest, could impact key Senate races in North Dakota and Ohio, two states in the top 10 of soybean producing states.
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The push to make hemp, a non-psychoactive relative of marijuana, a legal cash crop in the United States got a fresh boost Monday from the country's most powerful senator.
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First Known Use of cash crop
1868
CASH CROP Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of cash crop for English Language Learners
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: a crop (such as tobacco or cotton) that is grown to be sold rather than for use by the farmer
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