cash crop

cash crop

English

Noun

cash crop (plural cash crops)

1. (agriculture) A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
   • 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:

     So the matter rested until the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Company was incorporated on August 8, 1877, appropriately displaying a bunch of hops on its seal, for these had become the principal cash crop in the area.

Synonyms

• money crop

Translations

crop grown for sale

Chinese: Mandarin: 經濟作物／经济作物 (zh) (jīngjì zuòwù) Dutch: handelsgewas (nl) n, exportgewas n, uitvoergewas n Finnish: rahakasvi (fi) German: zum Verkauf bestimmtes Agrarprodukt n Gujarati: રોકડીયો પાક (rokḍīyo pāk) Hindi: नकदी फसल (nakdī phasal) Irish: barr margaidh m Kannada: ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯ ಬೆಳೆ (kn) (vāṇijya beḷe) Malayalam: നാണ്യവിള (nāṇyaviḷa) Marathi: नगदी पिके (nagdī pike) Nepali: नगदे वाली (nagade wālī) Oromo: kaash kirooppii Spanish: agricultura de mercado f Tagalog: salapiing pananim Tamil: பணப்பயிர் (ta) (paṇappayir), காசுப்பயிர் (kācuppayir)

See also

• subsistence crop

References

• “cash crop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.