cash crop

plantation

Large-scale farming operation

• exploitationSelfish use of others
• slaveryOwnership of people
• indentured laborWork obligation bound by contract

empire · imperialism · monoculture · landowners · hacienda · encomienda · forced labor · colonial trade · spice trade · triangular trade

cotton

Plant fiber for textiles

• tobaccoDried smoking leaf
• sugarCrystalline carbohydrate sweetener
• coffeeBrewed bean beverage

tea · cocoa · rubber · palm oil · soybeans · corn · wheat · rice · jute · hemp

cultivation

Fostering growth through care

• harvestGathering mature crops
• plantationLarge-scale farming operation
• irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture

fertilizer · pesticide · yield · acreage · farmland · tillage · sowing · soil fertility · agronomy · seedling

profit

Gain exceeding expenditure

• revenueBusiness income total
• incomeRegular monetary receipts
• investmentDeploying capital for returns

returns · marketability · capital · dividends · debt · land value · labor costs · volatility · boom · bust

export

Foreign-bound sale

• marketVenue for trade
• tariffsTaxes on imports
• commodity exchangeMarket for trading raw goods

pricing · import · freight · shipment · customs · logistics · futures · speculation · fair trade · quota

• harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
• farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm, put out to pasture
• plantationcotton field, sugar cane, tobacco barn, slave quarters, overseer
• tobacco farmingtobacco leaf, tobacco leaves, tobacco fields, tobacco field, tobacco barn
• Cotton Farmingcotton fields, cotton bolls, cotton gin, cotton gins, cotton harvest
• farming systemssubsistence farming, collective farming, organic farming, mixed farming, tenant farming