cash crop
Example Sentences
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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
"As cardamom is the queen of spices and a cash crop lot of people have started get in to cultivation," she says.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
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
Just as in Kentucky, the devastation ripped an important cash crop away from rural mountain communities, spurring on city-bound migration as people fled withering agrarian economies.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023
When Chimbus saw white settlers planting coffee, they began growing coffee themselves as a cash crop.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
