How to Use cash crop in a Sentence

cash crop

noun

• In the 1950s, the boom in package tourism showed promise as a new cash crop.
  — Dag Goering, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The latest cash crop on U.S. farms doesn’t need to be shipped to markets.
  — Paul Page, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Too bad for him all of Trump’s friends want to make money off that cash crop.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 17 Apr. 2018
• The cash crop’s growth cycle lasts for 12-15 months, from the time the saplings are sown till the time the crop is harvested.
  — Supriya Vohra, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
• The move is the latest step in Thailand's plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 11 May 2022
• War of the cash crops What would Napa look like if cannabis farms were allowed to take root?
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2019
• And cashews could become a cash crop for farmers in a wider range of countries.
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 26 Jan. 2022
• Woodworm got into the tobacco, which was the colonists’ lone hope of a cash crop.
  — Michael Pye, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Tobacco became the main cash crop and maize the staple grain.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• But the full effects of hashish’s declining appeal as a cash crop are yet to be seen in the village.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• The land became a hemp plantation, as the plant was Kentucky’s number one cash crop at the time.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2021
• Cannabis is fast becoming the world’s newest cash crop.
  — Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz, 23 Nov. 2019
• Most rice farmers in Senegal eke out a living farming a few acres of rice and cash crops like onions and okra.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• Quinoa has become the cash crop of these high-altitude farmers.
  — National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
• Slaves spent many hours working in fields to produce cotton and other cash crops.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Years before the reign of King Citrus, dozens of wineries and more than a million grapevines made up an enormous L.A. cash crop.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Tobacco is not a cash crop for them anymore, which is good for public health but bad for the farmers.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
• These are substantial amounts compared to the $195 billion in cash crop sales for all products.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• But a lucrative new cash crop is now promising to help keep the kibbutz movement alive: cannabis.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
• The area’s main cash crop had been hops until the mid-twentieth century.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Soybeans are the No. 2 cash crop in the United States after corn and about 25 billion pounds of soybean oil are produced each year.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 June 2022
• Farmers across the country are considering the new cash crop.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Alabama is buzzing about the potential of our legal new cash crop.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al.com, 5 June 2019
• Most of her neighbors were farmers, growing cash crops like grain, and Ahmadi’s parents did the same.
  — Alexis Okeowo, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
• Farmers view hemp, which can’t be used to get high, as a potential cash crop due to its myriad uses.
  — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
• Teddy bear chollas are everywhere, fields of them growing like a cash crop.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• Fires were set to clear land for settlement and cash crop agriculture, burning for seven years straight, as the legend goes.
  — Susana Ferreira, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• When weathered into soil, this shale is perfect for growing cotton, a cash crop planted at a time...
  — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 9 May 2019
• In much of southern and eastern Africa, maize became the major food grain, while, in some places, cash crops for export, like cotton and tobacco, were prevalent.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• And even then, it’s been obscured underneath layers of seaweed — a cash crop harvested by locals.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024