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What is a cash crop?

What is a cash crop? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (agriculture) A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
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Arrowroot, a major cash crop, is used in desserts, including arrowroot sponge cake and arrowroot custard.
Where adapted, it is unmatched by any other forage as a feed for livestock, as a cash crop, and as an energy-efficient crop.
With subsequent control of the boll weevil, cotton cultivation has increased but has not surpassed peanuts as the primary cash crop.
The blue agave is no longer a wild plant, but rather a carefully cultivated cash crop.
A market revolution occurred as a yeoman and cash crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing replaced artisan economy.
As a cash crop, cattle encouraged ranchers to practise ruthless predator control, killing bears, bobcats and mountain lions.

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