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	cash crop - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about cash crop
		Uganda is one of the countries most dependent on cash crops.
		Coffee was first imported to Jamaica in 1728 and rapidly gained importance as a cash crop.
		Crop grown solely for sale rather than for the farmer's own use, for example, coffee, cotton, or sugar beet.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /cash+crop (207 words)

	Cash crop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money.
		In tropical and subtropical areas, jute, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, bananas, oranges and cotton are common cash crops.
		When used in conjunction with practices which seek to maximise crop yield and which favour monoculture, increasing reliance on cash crops tends to have adverse, long term environmental consequences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cash_crop (442 words)

	Cash crop Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The term is used to differentiate from crops that are not sold, such as those fed to livestock or grown as food for the producer's family.
		In tropical and subtropical areas, coffee, cocoa, sugar, bananas and orangess are common cash crops.
		Prices for major cash crops are set in commodity markets with global scope, with some local variation (called basis) based on frieght costs and local supply and demand balance.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cash_crop.html (349 words)

	Cash crop: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In earlier times cash crops were usually only a small (but vital) part of a farm's total yield, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain, technically a caryopsis)....
		Prices for major cash crops are set in commodity markets[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] with global scope, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cash_crop.htm (1458 words)

	Cash Crop (1998)
		Crop - apparently called Harvest during its theatrical run in 1999 - takes place in the languishing farm belt, where the men who till the fields have seen better days.
		Cash Crop touts itself as a “coming of age” drama, and Andy stands at the heart of those aspects of the film.
		Cash Crop appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /cashcrop.shtml (2176 words)

	Business Analysis Summary for Cash Crop Farms 1995
		Crop yields in 1995 were about the same as 1994, with the increases in crop value Corning from increases in prices and crop quality due to good weather conditions.
		The 43 cash crop farms were divided into three groups by return on owned capital from less than 3 percent, 3 to 7 percent and greater than 7 percent.
		4.The crop mix was 3 percent in sugar beets, 38 percent in corn, 21 percent in soybeans, 13 percent in wheat, and 7 percent in edible beans and 5 percent idle land.
	web1.msue.msu.edu /msue/imp/modae/59009501.html (4176 words)

	1920s Farm Money - What is a Cash Crop?
		Most York County farmers harvested enough corn, wheat, and oats to sell for cash so they were known as cash crops.
		After the crops were harvested, many farmers stored the corn and grain in bins while they watched the market price.
		In addition to cash crops, farmers grew oats, alfalfa, barley, and milo (sorghum) to feed cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, and chickens.
	www.livinghistoryfarm.org /farminginthe20s/money_02.htm (165 words)

	Cash Crop Clothing - Specializing in Skate Clothing and Skating Accessories - About Us
		Cash Crop Clothing specializes in skate clothing and skating accessories specifically designed for skaters.
		Cash Crop also carries a line of photos, posters and gallery pictures.
		Cash Crop Clothing is one of the most innovative brands on the market.
	www.cashcropclothing.com (188 words)

	Policy Synthesis Number 41
		These spillover benefits included increased adoption of fertilizer on food crops made possible by cash crop input delivery channels, and increased availability of farm credit through cash crop schemes with which to hire additional labor and finance investments in productive assets such as draft oxen and traction equipment.
		Crop commercialization is not uniformly correlated with landholding or area cultivated among the households surveyed;
		Cash crop promoters such as sugarcane mill owners or coffee processors can be important investors and partners in this process, but their performance is critical to determining whether the welfare outcomes for smallholders are positive or negative.
	www.aec.msu.edu /AGECON/FS2/polsyn/No41.htm (1470 words)

	Fighting Appalachia's Top Cash Crop, Marijuana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The prodigious, high-octane marijuana crop is a startling fact of modern life to outsiders passing through the 65 Appalachian counties in the target area, a rugged, fruitful swath of some beautiful parts of Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee.
		Marijuana is ubiquitous, growing well-tended in deep-woods patches and casually disguised, too, in the expanse of a farmer's cornfield and a resident's basement.
		The annual crop comes in at an estimated $4-billion-plus yield of high-grade produce that flows illicitly to markets of the Northeast willing to pay some of the nation's highest street prices.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v01/n357/a07.html?999 (751 words)

	A missing Cash crop, from TV to Dylan
		Tapes of "The Johnny Cash Show," a prime-time network TV series Cash hosted for two seasons in 1969-71 on ABC, are sitting around somewhere gathering dust, when they should be cleaned off and rereleased on the home video market.
		Cash wrote the liner notes to Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" and the two of them sing "The Girl From the North Country" on the album.
		Dylan, who was house-guesting at the Cash family manor while he recorded the album, joined Cash in the studio and they sang 16 songs together while tapes rolled.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/21/PK306844.DTL (580 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Soybeans now top cash crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Last year, soybeans generated $124.3 million in cash receipts for the state's farmers, according to new figures from the Virginia Agricultural Statistics Service.
		Cash receipts from tobacco actually rose last year from $89.5 million in 2003, though they have dropped in prior years.
		Soybean's cash receipts rose almost 50 percent last year from $83.4 million in 2003.
	fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2005/112005/11252005/148400 (461 words)

	Pot - America's No. 1 Cash Crop
		Brian's first crop of seed died after his little brother, worried the police would put his parents in jail, poured a bottle of Brut aftershave over them.
		In October, they harvested their first crop, manicuring the buds according to the instructions in the book and hanging therm to dry in one of the partner's attics.
		Investing $1,000 of the proceeds from their first crop in a mail order hydroponic growing system, Brian and his partners set out 100 plants in an unused sa una in one of their homes.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/drg17.htm (6220 words)

	NORML Report on U.S. Domestic Marijuana Production - NORML
		Marijuana remains the fourth largest cash crop in America despite law enforcement spending an estimated $10 billion annually to pursue efforts to outlaw the plant.
		Government crop yield estimates place the value of these 8.7 million harvested plants at approximately $26.3 billion to growers and a street value of $43.8 billion.
		Marijuana ranked fourth out of all United States cash crops in 1997, amassing a greater value to farmers than tobacco, wheat, or cotton.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=4444 (2133 words)

	Four Corners - 10/04/2006: Cash Crop
		This two-part report is compulsory viewing for any Australian looking for a clear and coherent analysis of the AWB scandal.
		"Cash Crop" — Part One - on Four Corners, 8.30 pm Monday 10 April, ABC TV.
		Note: Part Two of "Cash Crop" will be aired on Monday 17 April and repeated Wednesday 19 April.
	www.abc.net.au /4corners/content/2006/s1610294.htm (645 words)

	CBC Prince Edward Island - Wild rose could be new cash crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The University of Prince Edward Island is researching what could be the region's newest commercial crop: rose hips.
		It opened a new greenhouse on campus on Thursday that will be used to grow crops for researchers.
		He foresees a day when they could be planted between fields of other cash crops.
	www.cbc.ca /pei/story/pe_rose_20051111.html?ref=rss (198 words)

	Afghanistan’s cash crop wilts - May 2001: PARIAH NATION - MSNBC.com
		Hasan once grew Afghanistan’s premier cash crop, poppies from which opium is produced.
		Last year, Afghanistan was the world’s largest opium producer, with 75 percent of the world’s crop, a staggering output of some 3,500 tons of one of the most addictive drugs on earth.
		That in less than a year Afghanistan has gone from being the biggest opium producer in the world to providing a trickle of the global supply may be the single-most successful drug moratorium in modern history.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3071809 (974 words)

	A Cash Crop, a Better Life (washingtonpost.com)
		Yet one crop now dominates farming and ties this settlement of 216 people to China's industrial boom: Seemingly every family grows rubber trees, feeding China's voracious appetite for factory-made goods.
		Once a place of subsistence farmers, it is now home to families earning as much as $4,000 a year from rubber, plowing the cash into consumer goods and improvements such as indoor plumbing.
		The rubber trade has also spawned a new crop of entrepreneurs in what remains one of China's poorest regions, turning uneducated ethnic minority farmers into capitalists -- a class shunned and persecuted in the name of peasant revolution only a quarter-century ago.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6150-2004Nov22.html (680 words)

	Marijuana Ranks Fourth Largest Cash Crop In America Despite Prohibition - NORML
		Marijuana remains the fourth largest cash crop in America despite law enforcement spending approximately $10 billion annually to enforce prohibition, a new report from The NORML Foundation concluded today.
		The report, entitled "1998 Marijuana Crop Report: An Evaluation of Marijuana Production, Value, and Eradication Efforts in the United States," estimates that farmers harvested 8.7 million marijuana plants in 1997 worth $15.1 billion dollars to growers and $25.2 billion on the retail market.
		Had the authors accepted the government's one pound per plant standard, 1997's marijuana crop would have been worth $26.3 billion to growers and $43.8 billion on the street.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=3906 (634 words)

	Washington farms look at canola as possible cash crop - December 20, 2004
		SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — Lower Valley researchers are looking for a renewable fuel source that could reduce dependency on imported petroleum and give farmers a new cash crop.
		His company is studying which type of canola grows best in Yakima Valley and is looking into the possibility of building a local production facility to extract oil from the seeds.
		Both researchers agree the Valley needs a new cash crop and this is the time for farmers to get into the alternative fuel game.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2004/1220/biz/stories/01biz.htm (953 words)

	As a cash crop
		Now that the freeze protection issue is becoming more manageable, the next step in revitalizing Alabama's satsuma industry is establishing a market for Alabama oranges.
		Most of the area's crop is sold locally in grocery stores and roadside markets, though McDaniel said Gulf Coast satsumas have been shipped as far away as Birmingham in recent years and they can occasionally be found in scattered outlets throughout the state.
		According to Revel, educating people about the exceptional qualities of satsuma oranges is the first big step in establishing a market.
	southeastfarmpress.com /mag/farming_cash_crop/index.html (908 words)

	Feature Article of Sunday, 4 January 2004
		But because of deplorable "feeder" roads to Ghana's cities and ports, roughly one-third to one-half of the country's crop of delicious pineapples rots before reaching market.
		The DEA offered the carrot of "technical assistance" – jargon in foreign-aid speak for equipment and cash that African police, who are woefully underpaid, long for.
		For now the DEA-inspired move against Ghana's pot growers has resulted in publicized destruction of fields, some arrests – and more aid for Ghana from a grateful U.S. government.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=49269 (901 words)

	Cocoa, Ghana's Largest Cash Crop
		The Swiss Missionaries who came to the Gold Coast in the early nineteenth century, and to Kwawu in 1888, wanted to convert the local people to cash cropping so as to monetize their economy.
		The Swiss set up a collecting warehouse, called a "factory," to collect the cocoa beans from the cash crop farmers and ship them to Switzerland, making Switzerland a name for itself as a producer of fine chocolate.
		The first half of the twentieth century was characterised by a large and rapid expansion of commercial cash cropping of the cocoa.
	www.scn.org /rdi/kw-coc.htm (467 words)

	ABC 7 News - Tobacco is No Longer Virginia' Top Cash Crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richmond, Va. (AP) - Tobacco, historically Virginia's top cash crop, has lost its crown to soybeans.
		You should be looking toward what your elected officials do for farmers of other crops, since that's the way Virginia goes.
		There's land, lots of land and it needs to be represented for what it produces, but many politicians are still in the hands of tobacco.
	www.wjla.com /news/stories/1105/280680.html (723 words)

	Disaster payments become cash crop - Tuesday, 11/30/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From Texas to North Dakota, disaster payments are fast becoming a regular and major form of farm subsidies — almost as important to some growers as the billions in standard crop subsidies that get the most public attention.
		Farmers who buy federally subsidized crop insurance can get disaster payments to cover the deductibles on their policies.
		Farmers may only insure a portion of a crop's projected value — 75% to 85%, depending on the region.
	tennessean.com /business/archives/04/11/62166474.shtml?... (584 words)

	Cash crop - WordReference Forums
		Alguien sabe si cash crop puede traducirse como cosecha efectiva?
		Yes it can...It means that it was a good crop that year and brought in a lot of money..at least the farmers here say that
		cash crop- cultivos vendidos y no utilizados como forraje [Ref.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=18114 (218 words)

	Cash Crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Andy Yates (Wil Horneff) was born and raised in a farming community in rural Pennsylvania, where people know each other and value hard, honest work.
		Andy discovers that his seemingly conservative parents (Jeffrey DeMunn and Lisa Emery) have managed to hold on to the family farm through a secret source of income -- in addition to the food crops that have been their livelihood for generations, they're growing marijuana and selling it at a considerable profit.
		The Yateses are not the only family in the area raising pot in order to pay the bills, and in time the town sheriff (John Slattery) is visited by a DEA investigator (Mary McCormack) who is trying to ferret out the local drug growers.
	www.djangomusic.com /item_movie.asp?id=V+++181058 (194 words)

	MPR: Wind power is another cash crop
		Wind power is another cash crop (story audio)
		News Forum: Can wind generated energy be a successful cash crop?
		In early July, Pam Fey watched as a big part of her family's future took shape.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/09/29_steilm_windone (1242 words)

	Cash Crop Movie: Cash Crop DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cash Crop Movie: Cash Crop DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Mixed emotions are triggered in two law enforcement officers when they have to start raiding local farms where marijuana is being grown solely to keep the farm operational.
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	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/012236118749BT (104 words)

	CBC Nova Scotia - Wild rose could be new cash crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CBC Nova Scotia - Wild rose could be new cash crop
		Power lines to stay buried in Cowie Hill
		Halifax police hope budget isn't a cop out
	www.cbc.ca /ns/story/ns_rose_20051111.html (213 words)

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