A crop grown for export rather than for local consumption. Common cash crops include coffee, cocoa, bananas, peanuts, tea, cotton and rubber. Cash crops can be a major cause of hunger and food insecurity locally; they often take up the best farmlands, leaving poor farmers to work marginal lands.
growing crops for commercial sale instead of for local consumption - usually refers to crops grown for export ie. cotton, sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco etc.
a crop grown to be sold and exported.
a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
An agricultural crop grown to provide revenue from an off-farm source.
a crop that is grown especially to sell in order to make money
what a farmer raises, crop or livestock, to sell for money
A crop, such as tobacco or cotton, grown--not for food like corn or wheat--but to be sold for cash.
In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money. The term is used to differentiate 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 (but vital) part of a farm's total yield, while today, especially in the developed countries, almost all crops are mainly grown for cash.
