How to Use cash crop in a Sentence

cash crop

noun

• And cashews could become a cash crop for farmers in a wider range of countries.
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 26 Jan. 2022
• Slaves spent many hours working in fields to produce cotton and other cash crops.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Tobacco became the main cash crop and maize the staple grain.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Woodworm got into the tobacco, which was the colonists’ lone hope of a cash crop.
  — Michael Pye, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Quinoa has become the cash crop of these high-altitude farmers.
  — National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
• The move is the latest step in Thailand's plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 11 May 2022
• In colonial and post-colonial regimes, they were forced to plant cash crops and were heavily taxed.
  — Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• In the 1950s, the boom in package tourism showed promise as a new cash crop.
  — Dag Goering, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• War of the cash crops What would Napa look like if cannabis farms were allowed to take root?
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2019
• The community grew cash crops such as cotton and corn and raised livestock.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
• Alabama is buzzing about the potential of our legal new cash crop.
  — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al.com, 5 June 2019
• But the full effects of hashish’s declining appeal as a cash crop are yet to be seen in the village.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• Teddy bear chollas are everywhere, fields of them growing like a cash crop.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• Tobacco is not a cash crop for them anymore, which is good for public health but bad for the farmers.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
• The area’s main cash crop had been hops until the mid-twentieth century.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Farmers across the country are considering the new cash crop.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Most rice farmers in Senegal eke out a living farming a few acres of rice and cash crops like onions and okra.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• Farmers view hemp, which can’t be used to get high, as a potential cash crop due to its myriad uses.
  — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
• Turning soybeans into a major cash crop was the work of government.
  — Marc Levinson, WSJ, 3 June 2018
• The land became a hemp plantation, as the plant was Kentucky’s number one cash crop at the time.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2021
• The sugarcane had been introduced during slavery as a cash crop.
  — Padma Lakshmi, Time, 24 June 2020
• Farmers are expecting a less-than-stellar harvest this year, but one cash crop could prove to a huge economic boon.
  — cleveland, 9 Oct. 2019
• The region’s first cash crop was hemp, according to the book, valuable for creating sturdy ropes.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• Fires were set to clear land for settlement and cash crop agriculture, burning for seven years straight, as the legend goes.
  — Susana Ferreira, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• These are substantial amounts compared to the $195 billion in cash crop sales for all products.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• Most of her neighbors were farmers, growing cash crops like grain, and Ahmadi’s parents did the same.
  — Alexis Okeowo, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
• The cash crop’s growth cycle lasts for 12-15 months, from the time the saplings are sown till the time the crop is harvested.
  — Supriya Vohra, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
• In the fields around the Quad Cities in northwest Illinois, the state’s biggest cash crops look amazing these days.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
• 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.
  — Shola Lawal, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
• And any sensible apple grower in Ontario knew their cash crop would be the McIntosh.
  — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 12 Sep. 2025