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cash crops  

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  • Cash crops typically refer to food and nonfood plants whose yields are sold. Also called export or commercial crops, cash crops are intended to produce income, whereas subsistence crops are grown to feed one's family and/or livestock, as well as to use in barter. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Cash Crop]

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