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  2. Cash crop - Wikipedia

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    A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm . The term is used to differentiate a marketed crop from a staple crop ("subsistence crop") in subsistence agriculture , which is one fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for ...

  3. List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities

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    1.2 Vegetables. 1.3 Fruits. 1.4 Dairy. 1.5 Drinks. 1.6 Meat. ... FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: [1] Vegetable ... Fruit First Second

  4. Market garden - Wikipedia

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    A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants. The diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, typically from under 0.40 hectares (4,000 m 2 ; 1 acre ) to some hectares (a few acres), or sometimes in greenhouses ...

  5. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    The Neolithic founder crops (or primary domesticates) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India ...

  6. Agriculture in Poland - Wikipedia

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    In 1990 grain production dominated Polish agriculture: the highest yields came from: wheat; rye; barley; oats; Other major crops included potatoes, sugar beet, fodder crops, flax, hops, tobacco, and fruits. Cultivation of corn expanded during the 1980s but remained limited. The northern and east-central regions of the country mainly offered ...

  7. Agriculture in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Particularly noteworthy was the development in Almeria—one of the most arid and desolate provinces of Spain—of winter crops of various fruits and vegetables for export to Europe. [ 2 ] Though only about 17 percent of Spain's cultivated land was irrigated, it was estimated to be the source of between 40 and 45 percent of the gross value of ...

  8. Category:Crops - Wikipedia

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    C. Canadian Grain Commission; Cash crop; Cassava; Catch crop; Cereal; Chicory; Chili pepper; Coconut; Coffea; Coffee; Coffee bean; Companion planting; Continuous harvest

  9. Agriculture in Italy - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, agricultural techniques were completely renewed and the first livestock farms were created on the American model, based on the cultivation of hybrid maize, a completely new production framework was outlined in the fruit and viticulture sector, which will then be able to compete, in the following decades, with French agriculture.