A huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it. (NovaNET) (:
growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco -apex ;)
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.
Growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton overworked the land.
Growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton overworked the land.
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 main cash crops in the south were rice, tobacco, and indigo.
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 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. .
One of the main cash crops of Virginia is tobacco.
Corn,wheat and tobacco are examples of cash crops
a huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it
Growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton overworked the land.