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By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
Richard Lugar

Meaning of "cash crop" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CASH CROP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CASH CROP

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Cash crop is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CASH CROP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cash crop

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, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family. In earlier times cash crops were usually only a small part of a farm's total yield, while today, especially in the developed countries, almost all crops are mainly grown for revenue. In least developed countries, cash crops are usually crops which attract demand in more developed nations, and hence have some export value. Prices for major cash crops are set in commodity markets with global scope, with some local variation based on freight costs and local supply and demand balance. A consequence of this is that a nation, region, or individual producer relying on such a crop may suffer low prices should a bumper crop elsewhere lead to excess supply on the global markets. This system has been criticized by traditional farmers.

Definition of cash crop in the English dictionary

The definition of cash crop in the dictionary is a crop grown for sale rather than for subsistence.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CASH CROP

cash account
cash advance
cash bar
cash bonus
cash card
cash cow
cash dealings
cash deficit
cash desk
cash discount
cash dispenser
cash economy
cash flow
cash holdings
cash in
cash in hand
cash income
cash limit
cash machine
cash mob

WORDS THAT END LIKE CASH CROP

catch crop
cover crop
crop
energy crop
Eton crop
food crop
intercrop
killcrop
outcrop
overcrop
riding crop
root crop
sharecrop
stonecrop
subsistence crop

Synonyms and antonyms of cash crop in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cash crop» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CASH CROP

Find out the translation of cash crop to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cash crop from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cash crop» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

经济作物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cultivo comercial
570 millions of speakers

English

cash crop
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नकदी फसल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحاصيل النقدية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

товарной культурой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colheita de dinheiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্থকরী ফসল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cultures de rente
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tanaman tunai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cash crop
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

換金作物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

현금 작물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Awis mbayar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cây công nghiệp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பணப்பயிர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नगदी पिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ihracata yönelik ürün
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cash crop
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uprawa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

товарної культурою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cultură numerar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συγκομιδή μετρητών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kontantgewas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avsalugrödor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cash crop
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cash crop

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CASH CROP»

The term «cash crop» is regularly used and occupies the 105.577 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CASH CROP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cash crop

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2 QUOTES WITH «CASH CROP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cash crop.
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Richard Lugar
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
2
Howlin' Wolf
I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CASH CROP»

Discover the use of cash crop in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cash crop and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cash crop: an American dream
Shares interviews with California marijuana growers and those opposed to marijuana, in which they discuss their lifestyles, the region, violence among growers, and the prospect of legalization
Ray Raphael, 1985
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Cassava: A Cash Crop in Africa
Introduction; The smallholder socioeconomic environment; Cassava production with purchased inputs; Cassava production response to use of purchased inputs; Production for sale; Household cash income generation; Impact of high-yielding ...
Felix I Nweke, 1996
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Cash Crop Halophytes: Recent Studies: Ten Years After Al Ain ...
Most of their work was based on the collection of papers from an international meeting in Al Ain/UAE. This volume presents useful examples of research from that meeting and the presentation of new research topics.
Helmut Lieth, Marina Mochtchenko, 2003
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Smallholder cash crop production under market ...
Cotton Production and Marketing in Northern Ghana: The Dynamics of Competition in a System of Interlocking Transactions, C. Poulton 3. The Cashew Sector in Southern Tanzania: Overcoming Problems of Input Supply, C. Poulton 4.
Andrew Dorward, Jonathan Kydd, Colin Poulton, 1998
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The Potential of Herbs As a Cash Crop
Written on the commercial-scale growing of herbs, a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Richard Alan Miller, 1998
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Carolina Gold Rice: The Ebb and Flow History of a Lowcountry ...
Richard Schulze draws upon both historical research and his own personal experience cultivating this famous crop to provide the intriguing inside story of an agricultural powerhouse that once gave rise to some of the largest fortunes in ...
Richard Schulze, 2012
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Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems
Common Name Scientific Name Uses Avocado Persea americana Fruit, cash crop Coconut Cocos micifern Food, oil, cash crop Guarana Panlinia cupana Drink, cash crop Tucuma Astrocaryum aculeatum Fruit, fibre Breadfruit Artocarpus altilis ...
Norman Uphoff, Andrew S. Ball, Erick Fernandes, 2006
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Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
A Market Garden Boom for Mandinka Women GENDER AND AGRICULTURE IN THE GAMBIAN RIVER BASIN The phenomenon of a cash-crop system managed exclusively by women had little precedent in The Gambia prior to the market ...
Richard A. Schroeder, 1999
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Rural Household Vulnerability and Insurance Against ...
3.3.2 Coping strategies by cash crop and non-cash crop growers To explore the difference in coping strategies (and by extension shed light on differences in their vulnerability status) of cash crop producers versus others, we consider next the ...
Luc J. Christiaensen, Alexander Sarris, 2007
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Uganda: Growing Out of Poverty
Cotton best illustrates the decline in the area under cash crop cultivation: from a peak of 677,500 hectares in 1978 the planted area fell to 67,000 hectares in 1990. Cotton production actually dipped below the 1987 low of 5,800 tons before  ...
Kapil Kapoor, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CASH CROP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cash crop is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mediation process over buffer zone at Harmonyville ends
Corn was never really a cash crop in my view I would have never told my community to plant an acre of corn each. If you would plant an acre of ... «LoveFM, Jul 15»
2
A change did come...
Cotton was the cash crop back in 1940-50s Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. Sugarcane was a fill-in after the cotton harvest. Sweet potatoes ... «NolaVie, Jul 15»
3
No Water Level Concerns
He observes that for many cash crop farmers -- the rain was almost too much of a good thing, because the lack of vegetative cover created ... «Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre, Jul 15»
4
Solve miraa crisis, Munya urges State
... he assured residents that the Miraa Bill will help categorise the commodity as cash crop to enable the Agriculture ministry to set up a master ... «K24 TV, Jul 15»
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Oats in favour as prices rise
Tyrone and his family view oats as a valuable cash crop and are allocating some of their most productive paddocks to them. RELATED. «Stock Journal, Jul 15»
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Farmers' market booth is 'just peachy'
“It's a really good cash crop,” she added. “Chilton County grows the best trees I've ever seen.” She said the key to growing good peaches is in ... «Vicksburg Post, Jul 15»
7
RCMP seize $430K worth of marijuana near Maple Creek
According to an RCMP news release, the plants had a street value of more than $430,000 — a sizable cash crop for an agricultural area, about ... «Regina Leader-Post, Jul 15»
8
Forage crops a driver of state agriculture
NMSU is also doing several research projects that focus on New Mexico's number one cash crop, alfalfa. These include alfalfa planting-date ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jul 15»
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Alexander von Humboldt: The man who made nature modern
... vulnerability and the devastating environmental effects of colonial cash crop cultivation: Monoculture and deforestation made the land barren, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
10
Hemp Hits New Highs
A half-ton of their magical new cash crop, strawlike but infinitely sturdier, is stacked in bales covered with blue tarp. It's hemp, which also goes ... «OZY, Jul 15»

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