Meaning Of Cash Crop In Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 cash crop From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Cropscash cropˈcash crop noun [countable]    TACa crop grown in order to be sold rather than to be used by the people growing it → subsistence cropExamples from the Corpuscash crop• Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.• Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop?• Coffee was introduced into the central highlands in the 1840s, and quickly became the most important cash crop.• Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.• Poppies are a major cash crop.• Potatoes are the only cash crop though even some of these are used for fodder.From Longman Business Dictionarycash cropˈcash cropFARMING a crop that a farmer grows to sell for money rather than to live on or uselarge farms growing cash crops such as tea, coffee, cocoa, rubber → crop Exercises Exercises

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