cash crop

英 [ˈkæʃ krɒp]

美 [ˈkæʃ krɑːp]

n.  商品作物; 经济作物

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 商品作物；经济作物
  a crop grown for selling, rather than for use by the person who grows it

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 经济作物
  Acash cropis a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
  1. Cranberries have become a major cash crop.
     越橘已经成了主要经济作物。

英英释义

noun

• a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)

双语例句

• Cash crop is a crop, such as tobacco, grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed.
  经济作物为直接出售而非作为家畜饲料而种植的庄稼，如烟草。
• Cotton, as an important cash crop, is widely planted in China, especially in Xinjiang district.
  我国是一个农业大国，棉花作为一种重要的经济作物，种植广泛，尤以新疆棉区最为明显。
• For taking off a poverty to amass a fortune, the farmer of this region mostly planted cash crop.
  为了脱贫致富，这个地区的农民大都种植了经济作物。
• The peasants have discovered that potatoes are a lucrative cash crop, so they no longer live semi-nomadic lives and are building new homes with roofs of steel not wooden shingles.
  农民发现种植土豆是利润丰厚的经济作物后，放弃了昔日的半游牧生活，转而盖起铁皮屋顶的新居（而不是传统的木瓦）。
• Detoxification potato is a major cash crop planted in the south of Liaoning.
  脱毒马铃薯是辽南地区种植较多的经济作物。
• I see. What is the main cash crop?
  我明白了。那主要的收入来源是什么呢？
• Yet the forests surrounding the national park are swiftly being converted to roads, cash crop plantations and other development projects.
  然而，这个国家公园周围的森林被迅速地变成了道路、商品作物种植园和其他发展项目。
• Follow the mesa between the sea plain and central mountainous country, develop for the tropical cash crop area much.
  沿海平原和中部山地之间的台地，多开辟为热带经济作物区。
• The cash crop that has a huge demand the world over and with easy going farming methods of Bt cotton had persuaded many farmers to engage in its cultivation, thereby, earning them a handsome income.
  现金作物在世界上拥有巨大的需求，由于Bt棉花的随和的耕作方式，所以说服了很多农民从事该植物的种植，从而赢得了很理想的收入。
• What is the main cash crop?
  那主要的收入来源是什么呢？