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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 ...
A social and economic history of medieval Europe (Routledge, 2013) Pirenne, Henri. Economic and social history of medieval Europe (1936) online; Postan, Michael. Mediaeval Trade and Finance (2002). Pounds, N.J.G. An economic history of medieval Europe (1974) online; Pounds, Norman John Greville. An historical geography of Europe: 450 B.C.–
A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or slaves. The properties are called plantations. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income.
The economics of English agriculture in the Middle Ages is the economic history of English agriculture from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII in 1509. England's economy was fundamentally agricultural throughout the period, though even before the invasion the market economy was important to producers.
Europe and the Middle East in 476 after the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor. Three events set the stage—and would influence agriculture for centuries—in Europe. First was the fall of the western Roman Empire which began to lose territory to foreign ‘barbarian’ invaders about the year 400.
U.S. farmers struggling with slumping incomes and depressed grain prices have been switching to cheaper generic pesticides and fungicides as they plan for spring planting next year, which market ...
Agriculture in the Russian Empire throughout the 19th-20th centuries Russia represented a major world force, yet it lagged technologically behind other developed countries. Imperial Russia (officially founded in 1721 and abolished in 1917) was amongst the largest exporters of agricultural produce, especially wheat .
In the past week, flowers finally bloomed in FarmVille, bringing a substantial shift to the biggest cash crops in the game. Sunflowers and Lillies have joined the list of the top 10 most ...