A cotton ball. Cotton is a significant cash crop. According to the National Cotton Council of America, in 2014, China was the world's largest cotton-producing country with an estimated output of about one hundred million 480-pound bales.[1]
A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from staple crop ("subsistence crop") in subsistence agriculture, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family.
In earlier times, cash crops were usually only a small (but vital) part of a farm's total yield, while today, especially in developed countries and among smallholders almost all crops are mainly grown for revenue. In the least developed countries, cash crops are usually crops which attract demand in more developed nations, and hence have some export value.
Prices for major cash crops are set in international trade markets with global scope, with some local variation (termed as "basis") based on freight costs and local supply and demand balance. A consequence of this is that a nation, region, or individual producer relying on such a crop may suffer low prices should a bumper crop elsewhere lead to excess supply on the global markets. This system has been criticized by traditional farmers. Coffee is an example of a product that has been susceptible to significant commodity futures price variations.
^USDA-Foreign Agriculture Service. "(Cotton) Production Ranking MY 2011". National Cotton Council of America. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
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earnings, with more than US$1 billion in earnings from cashcrop exports. The 6 main cashcrops are cashew nuts, coffee, cotton, sisal, tea and tobacco...
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a sweeter strain of tobacco from Trinidad, which became a profitable cashcrop. Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of Native American leader Powhatan...
considered the backbone of Pakistan's economy, which relies heavily on its major crops. Pakistan's principal natural resources are arable land and water. Agriculture...
and other crops. The country's agricultural products fall into two main groups: food crops produced for home consumption and cashcrops sold for profits...
commodity exports are provided by the small agricultural cash-crop sector. Principal crops include coffee, pulses (e.g., beans), oilseeds, cereals, potatoes...
second crop used to suppress weeds; a popular choice is marigold, as this has cash value and produces chemicals that repel pests. In mixed cropping, all...
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expansion of the crop. Because of the dynamism of their crop, soybean farmers enjoyed the best availability of credit for all legal cash-crop producers. Coffee...
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the Dutch East Indies colonial state had emerged and benefited from cashcrop trades of coffee, tea, quinine, rubber and palm oil from the colony, also...
region. The economy still relies heavily on agriculture, with smallholder cash-crop production predominating. Originally, Portuguese and French merchant-explorers...
190 in 2018. Cashcrops in the area occupied an average yearly area of 210,302.0 hectares from the 2016/17 crop season to the 2018/19 crop season. Sunflower...
land, depending on the amount of extra income they derived from raising cashcrops. Sharecropping, also very common, was usually a shorter-term agreement...
small scale subsistence producers to a mono-crop plantation system dependent on cash from its sugar crop and substantial food imports for the later centuries...
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and North America, and in Siberia. Winter wheat is grown as a cashcrop or a cover crop. Optimal growing conditions for winter wheat include high-drainage...
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