cash crop

Example Sentences

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Wong recalls how farmers cut down durian trees to make room for oil palms, the country's main cash crop, during an economic downturn in the 1990s.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

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

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

Bamboo promoters are urging them to see a bamboo plantation as the same kind of cash crop as coffee or tea estates.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

John Rolfe, famed for his role in making tobacco a successful cash crop in Virginia and later marrying the woman known as Pocahontas, recorded that “20 and odd” Africans were brought to the settlement.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis