cash crop
Example Sentences
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Wong recalls how farmers cut down durian trees to make room for oil palms, the country's main cash crop, during an economic downturn in the 1990s.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
Canadian officials traveled to China last year to persuade Beijing to remove hefty tariffs on Canadian canola, or rapeseed, which is a major cash crop for farmers in western Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
Today, the Salinas Valley’s biggest cash crop is strawberries, accounting for more than 20% of Monterey County’s $4.9-billion annual production value from agriculture.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Tusiime’s nursery has sold fewer than 10,000 seedlings in the past two years, confounding his own assessment of bamboo as an important cash crop which also happens to benefit the environment.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024
A foreman, he ran the Hermitage cotton gin—an important position on the farm, where cotton was a cash crop.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
