"We saw the direction that our cash crops such as coffee and tea went, " he says.
Even though elephants don't eat cotton and tobacco, they trample through these cash crops anyway.
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Much of the agriculture is cash crops and not foodcrops like race and beans.
Production of food and cash crops for export has plummeted, leaving the country both hungry and broke.
Farmers are clubbing together to buy tractors and produce more cash crops, such as soft fruit and tobacco.
It could provide much more food and cash crops too, perhaps two harvests a year, with proper irrigation.
In Malaysia, too, cash crops have been a valuable source of revenue.
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Farmers soak up about 85% of the border region's scarce water, and on the semi-arid land on both sides they grow thirsty cash crops like sugar cane.
The country should import more grain in order to raise more livestock, and devote its own land to the more profitable business of growing cash crops for export.
The Yunnan authorities have given money and sent 3, 000 technical experts to help farmers, mainly in Myanmar, switch from opium to cash crops such as cereals, fruit and coffee.
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To break free of this unhappy equilibrium, farmers must set aside a portion of their land to grow cash crops in the dry season, when they fetch a high price.
Java pulls in raw materials, cash crops and huge oil and gas revenues from the rest of Indonesia and sends back government and financial services, manufactured goods and semi-organised violence.
For the last several years, he has led engagements focused on identifying challenges and opportunities across the agricultural market and supply chain in sub-Saharan Africa, including cash crops (for export), staples, and horticulture.
Unlike urban middle-class families on the main island of Java, these farmers have benefited from the collapse of Indonesia's currency, since that raised the nominal value of cash crops such as coffee, palm oil and rubber.
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In the 1990s China was one of the first countries to approve some genetically modified cash crops, such as cotton and corn, and today China has more acreage devoted to growing GM crops than just about any other country in the world.
It is a time-waster, they say, a drain on family incomes, a usurper of land and water better used for cash and export crops like coffee, and possibly a dangerous narcotic too.
Many food executives had hoped that southern hemisphere farmers would try to cash in on high grain prices by growing bigger crops over the next several months, but weather problems are plaguing growers in several countries.
In contrast, land can produce both near-term cash flow and long-term price appreciation (timberland produces lumber, farmland produces crops or rent, etc.).
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