The tobacco grown in Jamestown was neither liked by the settlers or consumers back in Europe. John Rolfe solved this problem by successfully cross pollinating the Jamestown Tobacco with a strain from Trinidad in the West Indies, and producing a superior blend. .
a huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it.NovaNETThere is no problem with growing cash crops that I am aware of. Hay is a cash crop I grow.
The problem with growing cash crops is that it utilizes all available land for one single crop. This cuts down the amount of land that is needed for food crops. In addition, raising one cash crop only can cause the soil to degrade as a result.
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
cash crops
Prices for in-demand cash crops are set in commodity markets. Therefore, small farmers relying of the crop will suffer low prices if a bumper crop is in excess elsewhere.
a huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it.NovaNETThere is no problem with growing cash crops that I am aware of. Hay is a cash crop I grow.
The English founded Jamestown. The English settlers grew the cash crops in Jamestown.
A problem with cash crops is that they are labor-intensive and not economical without have enough labor to attend to them. When there are many workers to plant and harvest cash crops, then there is more profit.
The problem with growing cash crops is that it utilizes all available land for one single crop. This cuts down the amount of land that is needed for food crops. In addition, raising one cash crop only can cause the soil to degrade as a result.
a huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it
growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco -apex ;)
A huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it. (NovaNET) (:
Growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton overworked the land.
Cash crops. Many different things helped but mostly cash crops such as tobacco.
The growing of cash crops affected the societies in the states of Virginia and Maryland because it caused them to invade the Native Americans to take their land. Growing certain cash crops was hard on the soil and they needed more land.
Growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton overworked the land.
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.