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Cash Crop

Definition: Cash Crop

Cash Crop

Noun

1. A readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Cash Crop

Specialty definitions using "cash crop": Crop share rentNet cash incomeSUPERVISOR, DIVERSIFIED CROPS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cash Crop

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Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Cash Crop

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An alternative cash crop of Lupine for the ornamental market growing in Yuma , Az.Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

John Magagna, NRCS Soil Conservationist, and a Pennsylvania mushroom farmer, discuss the composting process used to create a growing medium for mushrooms. Mushrooms are the largest cash crop in Pennsylvania. [Slide 97CS3110].Credit: Bob Nichols.

John Magagna, NRCS Soil Conservationist, and a Pennsylvania mushroom farmer, discuss the composting process used to create a growing medium for mushrooms. Mushrooms are the largest cash crop in Pennsylvania. [Slide 97CS3111].Credit: Bob Nichols.

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop.Credit: Library of Congress.

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop.Credit: Library of Congress.

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop.Credit: Library of Congress.

Jesse Stubs' home and pecan grove, a cash crop. Flint River Farms, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cash Crop

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Economic History

Bangladesh

Jute is Bangladesh's main cash crop, cultivated in rotation with rice. (references)

Sierra Leone

The government is trying to increase food and cash crop production and upgrade small farmer skills. (references)

Pakistan

Tobacco - Tobacco is grown mainly in the NorthWest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Punjab and is an important cash crop. (references)

Minorities

Fiji

Most cash crop farmers are Indo-Fijians, who lease land from the ethnic Fijian landowners through the Native Land Trust Board. (references)

Vietnam

This also has the effect of making more land available to ethnic majority Kinh migrants to the mountainous areas who clear the forests for cash crop agriculture. (references)

Political Economy

Cote d'Ivoire

Most of the rural population remains dependent on smallholder cash crop production. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cash Crop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  cash crop

28
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Modern Translations: Cash Crop

Language Translations for "cash crop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kulturë për treg. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

piacra vitt termék, könnyen értékesíthetõ termés, könnyen értékesíthető termés. (various references)

   

Manx

  

troar vargee, troar argid. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ashcay opcray

   

Romanian

  

recoltã destinatã vânzãrii. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

товарная культура. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

usev koji donosi dobit. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avsalugröda. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ihracata yönelik ürün. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cash Crop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: carhops, coprahs.

-2 letters: carhop, caroch, coprah, copras, corsac, pharos, scarph, scorch.

-3 letters: caphs, capos, carps, chaos, chaps, chars, chops, coach, cocas, copra, corps, craps, crash, crocs, crops, harps, hoars, horas, opahs, orach, orcas, parch, poach, porch, praos, proas, roach, sapor, scarp, scrap, sharp.

-4 letters: arch, arco, arcs, caph, capo, caps, carp, cars, cash, chao.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-o-p-r-s"
 

+2 letters: crosspatch, schizocarp.

 

+3 letters: schizocarps.

 

+4 letters: accomplisher, arthroscopic, cacographies, catastrophic, cosmographic, crosspatches, discographic, physiocratic, scenographic.

 

+5 letters: accomplishers, archbishopric, camphoraceous, chalcopyrites, chiropractics, chiropractors, chloroplastic, cochairperson, coprophiliacs, micrographics, microphysical, necrophiliacs, prophylactics, pyrocatechols.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cash Crop


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 73 68      43 72 6F 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000011 01110010 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#67 &#114 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0073 0068      0043 0072 006F 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37678574237848182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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