0 a crop that is grown mainly to be sold, rather than used by the people who grew it or those living in the area it is grown in
1 a crop (= a plant ) grown by someone to sell rather than to eat or use themselves:
I always raised the usual things—cotton and corn and potatoes and a little truck and that sort of thing—always raised enough to eat for us and the stock—and then some cotton for a cash crop.
The remaining one or two per cent. are produced on farms or plants where chicken culture is the cash crop or chief business of the farmer.
They grow besides strawberries, turnips, corn, potatoes, carrots and raspberries for cash crops.
Coffee, as a colonial cash crop, clearly helped to drive these debates.
Two alternative scenarios were simulated aiming at improved energy self-reliance in the organic cash crop farms.
Each colonial failure justified another try at a cash crop and more environmental intervention.
In the parents' association, the agenda of the meetings centred on such ' male ' topics as cash crop prices and construction projects.
