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Cash crop   /kæʃ krɑp/   Listen
Cash crop

noun
1.
A readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco).





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... Consequently the economy has shown little progress in recent years in overcoming a severe setback brought on by civil war in the late 1980s. About 85% of the work force is involved in subsistence farming and fishing. Cotton is the major cash crop, accounting for at least half of exports. Chad is highly dependent on foreign aid, especially food credits, given chronic food shortages in several regions. Of all the Francophone countries in Africa, Chad has benefited the least ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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