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A crop grown for sale is a cash crop, whereas a crop grown for food is a subsistence crop.
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cash crop UK US noun [C]
► 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
Financial and business terms. 2012.