I now down in N.C. our two cash crops are flue cured tobacco and sweet potatoes, now georgia's cash crop is peanuts, around the appilachin mts. they mostly grow burley tobacco and apples due to the high nitrogen in the soil.
Tobacco. :D
At one time it was easily Cotton - but that diminished in importance by around the time of the Civil War - as demonstrated by the reluctance of the European countries to assist the Confederacy in order to restore shipments of Southern Cotton to Europe.
Crops like soybeans and sorghum have surged in importance in the Southern US states.
Grain crops like corn and wheat which dominate as cash crops in the Midwest are still important in the South, but not as much so as Tobacco, Cotton, soybeans, and sorghum. The top one varies from year to year depending on commodity prices.
In south east of England was famous for its marked gardens.
apples
Rice, Wheat, Cinnamon, poppies.
Rice, Wheat, Cinnamon, poppies.
corn and cotton~
cash crops are the crops that are grown to earn money
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Cash crops grown on plantation
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The crops in the South were cash crops and crops in the North were consumable crops.
The two cash crops grown in Hawaii were and still are pineapple and sugarcane.
The term cash crops refers to an agricultural crop that is grown with the intent of turning a profit.
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