How to Use cash crop in a Sentence
cash crop
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In the 1950s, the boom in package tourism showed promise as a new cash crop.
—Dag Goering, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
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The latest cash crop on U.S. farms doesn’t need to be shipped to markets.
—Paul Page, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
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Too bad for him all of Trump’s friends want to make money off that cash crop.
—Monique Judge, The Root, 17 Apr. 2018
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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
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The move is the latest step in Thailand's plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop.
—Heather Chen, CNN, 11 May 2022
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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
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And cashews could become a cash crop for farmers in a wider range of countries.
—Aryn Baker, Time, 26 Jan. 2022
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Woodworm got into the tobacco, which was the colonists’ lone hope of a cash crop.
—Michael Pye, New York Times, 11 May 2018
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Tobacco became the main cash crop and maize the staple grain.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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Cannabis is fast becoming the world’s newest cash crop.
—Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz, 23 Nov. 2019
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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
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Quinoa has become the cash crop of these high-altitude farmers.
—National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
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Slaves spent many hours working in fields to produce cotton and other cash crops.
—Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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These are substantial amounts compared to the $195 billion in cash crop sales for all products.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
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But a lucrative new cash crop is now promising to help keep the kibbutz movement alive: cannabis.
—Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
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The area’s main cash crop had been hops until the mid-twentieth century.
—Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2020
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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
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Farmers across the country are considering the new cash crop.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
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Alabama is buzzing about the potential of our legal new cash crop.
—J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al.com, 5 June 2019
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Most of her neighbors were farmers, growing cash crops like grain, and Ahmadi’s parents did the same.
—Alexis Okeowo, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
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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
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Teddy bear chollas are everywhere, fields of them growing like a cash crop.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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And even then, it’s been obscured underneath layers of seaweed — a cash crop harvested by locals.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
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