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

Tusiime’s nursery has sold fewer than 10,000 seedlings in the past two years, confounding his own assessment of bamboo as an important cash crop which also happens to benefit the environment.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

Hardly enough for a cash crop, but they were learning, and in another year, after another harvest, they would be experienced old farmers and sugarers, they told each other.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson