cash crop

English

Noun

cash crop (plural cash crops)

(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.

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