What do you mean by cash crops?

Question

What do you mean by cash crops?

Answer 1

In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money. The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops, 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 the developed countries, almost all crops are mainly grown for cash. In non-developed nations, cash crops are usually crops which attract demand in more developed nations, and hence have some export value.

Answer 2

They are a specific type of crop grown for money

Answer 3

I'll explain it in referance to our permaculture farm.  We grow/produce meat goats, meat rabbits, alfalfa hay, rapeseed, and the fruits, vegtables, herbs, and berries from our garden.

Our "cash crops," are the meat goats, and meat rabbits.  Those are the two items we raise to sell to people outside the farm.  Everything else we produce stays here and is used right here on the farm.

Another example for you in the commercial end of farming might be potato farmers (I live in Idaho in the heart of potato country).  Farmers here are having a nemato (microscopic critters) problem in their potato fields.  So many of them are growing their potatoes, and harvesting them as normal...that's their cash crop.  Then immediatly after potato harvest, they plant mustard seed.  The mustard grows and becomes another crop.  However it is not harvested.  It is turned back into the soil, and provides green manure and natural nemato control for the potato farmer.  So the mustard was a green manure and nemato crontrol crop for the farmer, and potatoes were the cash crop.

Hope this helps.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

its the crop thats sold and pays the rent

Answer 5

cash crops mean fast selling crops like rice/wheat etc

Answer 6

cash crops are any crop grown and sold for cash such as all grain crops produce livestock timber and hay if you take any of these and use them in your own operation to produce something else they would not be classified as a cash crop

Answer 7

i concur with Bob B

Answer 8

There are different crops.

cash crop gives more money ( Cash) than other crops .

Example for cash crop is Banana, Mangoe, Cashewnut etc

Other Crops are Cereals ( Rice) Pulses ( Green Gram ) etc.

Hope now you got the meaning of cash crop

Answer 9

Cash crops are just what the name says, crops grown for cash or to sell. Soybeans are usually a cash crop, grown to sell on the market to bring in money needed to operate the farm. Corn on the other hand was not usually considered a cash crop because it was used to feed the livestock on the traditional family farm. Today corn is a cash crop when grown and sold for making ethanol. Tobacco is a traditional cash crop, but more and more all crops are grown as cash crops. Animals are being raised in confinement by contract with corporations as the family farms are getting fewer and larger and growing mostly crops.

Answer 10

Many farmers grow traditional row crops, like corn, wheat and soybeans. Row crop farmers typically sell their crops for money (cash). Other farmers grow crops like corn and alfalfa primarily to feed to their livestock, and do not necessarily sell them for cash. Thus the differentiation between cash crops and feed crops.

Answer 11

A cash crop is a crop grown specifically for it's international demand... grown for cash.  Usually a monoculture crop, meaning it is the only crop grown in a very large field.. which usually requires a high yield of pesticides and herbicides to grow sucessfully at such a concentration, which is leading to long term global environmental and social consequences.

Examples:   coffee, wheat, rice, corn, soybeans, cocoa, sugar, banannas, cotton, timber, etc.

Answer 12

crops you grow and sell so you make cash

Answer 13

crops that grow  cash

Answer 14

Cash crops refers to one type of crop grown (Monoculture) and sold for cash.

Answer 15

Crops that are grown for money (tobacco, cotton, etc.)

Answer 16

A crop, such as tobacco, grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed.

A readily saleable crop (as cotton or tobacco) produced or gathered primarily for market

Coffee, cotton and tobacco are some of the most common cash crops grown on a large scale. However, the term can apply to any crop grown for market (versus growing for personal consumption or ornamental value)

Answer 17

Crops that produce far more capital than it takes to farm said crop.

I can think of an illegal one.