subsistence crop

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Cotton was our cash crop. 
I always raised the usual things—cotton and corn and potatoes and a little truck and that sort of thing—always raised enough to eat for us and the stock—and then some cotton for a cash crop. 
The remaining one or two per cent. are produced on farms or plants where chicken culture is the cash crop or chief business of the farmer. 
They grow besides strawberries, turnips, corn, potatoes, carrots and raspberries for cash crops. 

cash crop | Business English

cash crop
noun[ C ]
ukus
COMMERCE
a crop (= a plant ) grown by someone to sell rather than to eat or use themselves:
Rice is now the main cash crop of nine-tenths of the farmers in Punjab.
a lucrative/valuable cash crop

Examples of cash crop

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Coffee, as a colonial cashcrop, clearly helped to drive these debates.
Two alternative scenarios were simulated aiming at improved energy self-reliance in the organic cashcrop farms.
Each colonial failure justified another try at a cashcrop and more environmental intervention.
In the parents' association, the agenda of the meetings centred on such ' male ' topics as cashcrop prices and construction projects.
Most of this literature has focused on the country's success in expanding cashcrop production.
This potential has helped change cassava's standing from being a 'poor man's crop' to being seen as a profitable cashcrop.
Increasing cashcrop production has led to lower output of sorghum and maize.
They also cultivated cardamom that soon became an important cashcrop and brought in substantial revenue.
Conversely, small planters maintained their commitment to subsistence on the land while attempting to obtain a surplus from the cashcrop.
It is grown primarily for home consumption and subsistence, but is becoming increasingly important as a cashcrop.
Selection criteria were strongly in-uenced by market preferences, re-ecting the increasing role of cowpea as a cashcrop.
Sorghum is both a food and a cashcrop.
For many developing countries cotton is an essential cashcrop.
The importance of seed size and colour as selection criteria appears to re-ect the increasingly important role of cowpea as a cashcrop.
Despite this tax, however, cashcrop production continued to expand.
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