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Cash Crop

Also Known As Profit crop
Agricultural Production Systems and Economics

A crop grown to sell rather than to eat at home: coffee, cotton, sugarcane, cocoa, tobacco and, in the modern economy, most of what any commercial farm grows. The idea earns its place as one half of a contrast, the other half being the subsistence crop fed to the household and its animals; historically cash crops were a small share of a farm's yield, where today revenue is the point. What a region is pushed to grow for sale, and what that displaces, is a recurring hinge of agricultural history. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin Year
1868 1
The term cash crop entered English usage with its current meaning in 1868; the practice of growing crops to sell rather than to eat, especially on colonial plantations, is far older.
Classification
Concept Class
Agricultural Production Systems and Economics 1
Connections

Associated With

Agricultural Economics, Disciplines

The economics of what farmers grow to sell rather than to eat is a core agricultural-economics question.

Source Wikipedia: Agricultural economics
Coffee, Crops

Coffee is a standard example of a globally traded cash crop grown almost entirely for export sale.

Source Cash Crop (Wikipedia)
Cotton, Crops

Cotton was among the defining cash crops of the colonial and antebellum plantation economy.

Source Cash Crop (Wikipedia)
Subsistence Agriculture, Concepts

The contrasting poles of why a crop is grown: for the household or for sale

Source Cash Crop (Wikipedia)

Classified As

Agricultural Production Systems and Economics, Subcategories

Entity-backed identity for the concept class this concept already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

Sources
1. Cash Crop (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.
  • Etymology section
  • lead description (concept-class)
    A crop grown to sell rather than to eat at home: coffee, cotton, sugarcane, cocoa, tobacco and, in the modern economy, most of what any commercial farm grows.
  • Associated With: Coffee
  • Associated With: Cotton
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Wikipedia: Agricultural economics
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