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Cash crops
Classification of cash crops
Cash crops refer to crops grown mainly for market sales and processing to obtain economic benefits (rather than directly for the consumption of the grower's family).They are usually industrial raw materials or high-value commodities
The core categories include：
Fiber crops: provide raw materials such as textiles, ropes, and papermaking.
Seed fiber: cotton
Bast fiber: flax, ramie, jute, red hemp, hemp
Leaf fiber: sisal, abaca (Manila hemp)
Oil crops: seeds or fruits are rich in fat and are used to extract edible oil, industrial oil, biodiesel, etc.
Soybeans, rapeseed (canola), peanuts, sunflowers, sesame seeds, oil palm (palm oil), olives, castor, safflower, flax for oil (flax)
Sugar crops: rich in sugar, used to make sugar or ethanol.
Sugar cane, sugar beets
Hobby crops: meet specific consumption habits.
Tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa
Medicinal crops: used in pharmaceutical or traditional medicine (large-scale commercial cultivation).
Ginseng, licorice, mint, wolfberry, certain medicinal materials (such as Radix sylvestris, astragalus, etc., depending on the degree of scale)
Spice crops: provide seasoning or flavor raw materials (large-scale commercial cultivation).
Pepper, star anise (large material), cinnamon, vanilla (vanilla), pepper (grown in large areas in the production area)
Rubber crops: provide natural rubber.
Rubber trees (mainly in the tropics)
Other industrial raw material crops：
Dye crop: indigo (historically important, now less so)
Starch crops (non-staple food): cassava (used in industrial starch, alcohol, feed)
Biomass energy crops: certain fast-growing tree species (such as willow), miscanthus, etc. (specially planted for energy)
Flowers/ornamental plants (large-scale cut flowers, bulb production): such as tulip bulbs, rose cut flower plantations, etc.
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