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cash crop

Coffee beans ripening in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica. Coffee was first imported to Jamaica in 1728 and rapidly gained importance as a cash crop. The unique soil of the Blue Mountains region produces a quality of coffee which has gained a reputation among connoisseurs as one of the best in the world.

Crop grown solely for sale rather than for the farmer's own use, for example, coffee, cotton, or sugar beet. Many developing world countries grow cash crops to meet their debt repayments rather than grow food for their own people.

In 1990 Uganda, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and Somalia were the countries most dependent on cash crops for income.

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