"It's a subsistence crop, not a cash crop," he said.
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Its tea, a key cash crop, is exported from Mombasa.
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Welcome to the United States of Weed, our new cash crop.
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"The Ultimate Cash Crop" explores how a pot crisis post Trump
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Marijuana was for a long time a cash crop for Mexican traffickers.
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And wheat is cheaper to sow than corn, Serbia's main cash crop.
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But to the farmers I met there, pot is a cash crop.
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But it has since switched its focus to a different cash crop: hemp.
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"Meteorites have become like the biggest cash crop for desert nomads," Mr. Pitt said.
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China is the main importer of Argentine soybeans, the South American country's biggest cash crop.
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For years people have tried and failed to turn technology into the next cash crop.
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Woodworm got into the tobacco, which was the colonists' lone hope of a cash crop.
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Decades before cannabis was made illegal in 1937, hemp was a big cash crop for Kentucky.
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With foreigners it's more of a cash crop scenario; a short-term investment with instant gratification.
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HARTWELL, ENGLAND — A new cash crop has sprung up on Nicholas Beatty's enchanting farm near here.
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Amandla Stenberg's viral video called "Don't Cash Crop on My Cornrows" came out almost four years ago.
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And economic importance is translating into political heft: last year Kenya declared it an officially sanctioned cash crop.
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Farmers and ranchers with wind projects on their land now have an important new cash crop—the wind.
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Chris, Justin, JC, Joey, and Lance were the newest beneficiaries to the cash crop that was 90s pop.
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But a growing number of Latin American farmers are warming up to the bitter bean as a cash crop.
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But as rainfall became erratic in this arid region, he started growing betel leaves, a less thirsty cash crop.
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A share of this could help Jamaica replace income from diminished sales of sugar, once its biggest cash crop.
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Helmand Province is the Taliban's heartland and the source of the group's economic lifeline and main cash crop: poppy.
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He settled in the town of Lumby, in British Columbia, and began growing psilocybin mushrooms as a cash crop.
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They were also supposed to encourage farmers to abandon the cultivation of opium poppy, the region's most lucrative cash crop.
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Most people were subsistence farmers: there wasn't enough flat land to grow a cash crop, but they farmed the slopes.
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Yet many locals need to make ends meet now and are not about to give up their most lucrative cash crop.
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"Don't Cash Crop on My Cornrows," a video she made for history class on appropriating black culture, became a viral hit.
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The dryness has hurt wheat yields and slowed corn sowing, as growers pile into safe-haven soybeans, Argentina's main cash crop.
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Kava tea is a popular drink consumed throughout Oceania, and a cash crop in Fiji (Brooklyn Kava gets its tea from there).
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You pass fields of ferns—the area cash crop—while the rev of a few motorcycles struggling to climb steep paths echoes.
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CBD is making hemp a potentially huge cash crop because some believe it can help with anxiety, arthritis, stress and other conditions.
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That, she thinks, could be the starting-point not merely for something grown for local consumption, but of an industrial-scale cash crop.
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Peanuts are an important crop in Haiti, not only because it's an important source of protein, but also a very promising cash crop.
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That's income they can count on when commodity prices fluctuate or there is a year of poor harvest — it's their drought-proof cash crop.
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"Cash-crop farming cannot be the silver bullet that will pull farmers out of poverty, because consumption patterns keep changing," he said by phone.
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It once referred to a country that was overwhelmingly dependent on exportation of one cash crop for its political stability and financial well-being.
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An ample harvest of soy, Argentina's main cash crop, would help bring in export tax revenue needed by the government to cut its fiscal deficit.
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But rising tensions between traditional farmers and the state's newest cash crop highlight the problems with the agriculture industry's reliance on a mostly undocumented workforce.
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It might even become, like them, more of an industrial cash crop than something just grown for the pot, as is often the case now.
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Now Kentucky has one of the largest hemp industries in the country -- and McConnell says he thinks hemp could become the state's new cash crop.
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More pernicious, of course, are the human threats, particularly from farmers illegally encroaching on the cranes' habitat to grow more potatoes, the area's cash crop.
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If coffee went away in places where it's now a dominant cash crop would it be a net loss or a net gain for that society?
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Additionally, there are concerns that the mass adoption of alternative biofuels will lead to significant deforestation, and human-rights abuses seen in other cash-crop industries.
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The tea, he explained, combined Campeche's first colonial cash crop, sugar cane, with black tea that came in on British pirate ships in the 16th century.
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And is there a significantly higher number of pot smokers in legal states, rather than just people transitioning from getting America's No. 1 cash crop illegally?
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A farmer from the north of the province of Buenos Aires, Juan Minvielle, said he is replacing hectares of soybeans, the country's main cash crop, with corn.
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Cotton production also remains a key contributor, although the nation's main cash crop industry has been subject to global boycott orders over its use of forced labor.
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In Ms. Stenberg's finished project, a video titled "Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows," she contrasted the celebration of black cultural products with the denigration of black bodies.
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That said, I do order them to make at least one plant available to the turtles, out of basic decency and to keep the cash crop growing.
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Officials say that most of the fires in Borneo and Sumatra were set intentionally to clear the land for plantations for palm oil, a lucrative cash crop.
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Called the new "cash crop" for grocery stores, cauliflower has exploded in popularity in the past couple of years and isn't expected to wane any time soon.
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Or, hey, blame Paramount itself, who maybe should not have tried to squeeze more than meets the eye out of its only repeating cash crop besides Mission: Impossible.
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Government spending reductions are being made all the more painful by a recession that began earlier this year after a drought wrecked the country's main cash crop, soybeans.
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The trees stabilize the soil, suck planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air and provide a cash crop for local people, according to IFAD technical expert Jacopo Monzini.
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Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, then said it would suspend future soybean technologies in Argentina, a move that could limit output of the country's main cash crop.
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The U.N. agency has assisted more than 1,000 farmers to switch from opium to another cash crop, coffee, since 2014, said Troels Vester, UNODC country manager for Myanmar.
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For many farmers in this part of Bundelkhand, blood is the new cash crop - a source of guaranteed income as they exhaust other ways of making ends meet.
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Producers of Canada's newest cash crop are keen to support much-needed research into cannabis and what it can do—and to find ways of making it better.
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"Compare that to US$22013 billion sold in the U.S." Brazil is a top exporter of soybean, corn, and cotton, Pelaez says, with soy being its top cash crop.
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A city brochure, printed in Chinese in an attempt to woo foreign manufacturers, shows botanical gardens, kneeling debutantes and, in honor of the local cash crop, painted peanut sculptures.
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But farmers will need to make room for the next soy crop, planted in September and harvested in January, when heavy rains could put their big cash crop at risk.
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The pandemic has struck at the worst possible time for the South American country's all-important farm sector, as growers just start harvesting this season's soybeans, Argentina's main cash crop.
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The versatile oil palm is an important cash crop to the two Southeast Asian countries' emerging economies, which both account for over 80 percent of the world's production of palm oil.
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But this week, Hugo's 740 residents were told to stop drinking the water after the town's water supply tested positive for THC, the psychoactive chemical in Colorado's most famous cash crop.
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Soy is Argentina's main cash crop and the country is a major exporter of soybeans and the top supplier of soymeal, livestock feed and soyoil used for cooking and making biofuels.
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Indonesia fires: Officials say that most of the thousands of fires in Borneo and Sumatra were set intentionally to clear the land for plantations for palm oil, a lucrative cash crop.
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Many of Malawi's smallholder farmers who grow maize as a cash crop have diversified into legumes like soya and groundnuts, hoping for better market prices should one crop fail due to drought.
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It's disguised as a literary collective (Casey's having an affair with an English teacher), but features cult hallmarks like farm animals, polygamy and a "cash crop" -- which turns out to be flowers.
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For many of the nation's farmers and ranchers, wind energy has become their new drought-proof cash crop, paying them $2628 million a year for leases, a figure that grows each year.
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Hose off at the outside shower at Chez Fatou seaside restaurant and settle in for aperitifs and bowls of peanuts, the country's main cash crop, to watch how surfing is really done.
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Corn has a higher production cost than soy, Argentina's main cash crop, but the analysts said it is currently a better bet because soybean prices are falling due to a large U.S. crop.
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Tobacco accounted for approximately half of the Bluegrass State's cash crop receipts in the early 1990s, but by 2017 it had fallen to below 15 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who played a key role to decriminalize the potentially lucrative cash crop, said it would give farmers who are hurting from the loss of tobacco a significant boost.
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"There is a significant amount of nervousness in both the cattle and cash crop sector at the moment," said Glen Snyder, agri business manager for Bank of Montreal in Saskatchewan, Canada's main canola-growing province.
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Dandelion and guayule rubber crops in conventional and/or vertical farms will add new cash crop options for our growers and reduce our dependence on Asian rubber imports, which currently supply all America's manufacturing needs.
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Argentine exports to China, its second-biggest trading partner, have nearly quadrupled since 2001, driven by soybeans, its biggest cash crop, as China aims to secure the food supply for its population of 1.4 billion.
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When asked about the idea of turning Opuntia into a cash crop, Witt warns that putting value on the cactus could make it harder to control because people will want to keep the plant alive.
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It also hired over 50 locals (half of whom are women), and generated cash crop revenue from existing plants while the new ones grow, with expectations that the IPO would let it lease new land.
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Kopi luwak, according to the most commonly repeated history, was born out of necessity in the 1700s when Dutch colonizers forbid locals on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra to consume their own cash crop.
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France and Norway have become the first few countries to start curbing use of palm oil in the last month, driving fears in major Southeast Asian producing countries, where the cash crop has powered economic growth.
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The government expects 3 percent economic expansion this year, including the risk presented by a drought that has shriveled the harvest of Argentina's main cash crop, soy, and could itself shave 1 percentage point off growth.
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Another Macri business-friendly move was to cut the tax on shipments of soybeans, Argentina's main cash crop, from 35 percent to 30 percent days after assuming power, while scrapping export taxes on corn and wheat.
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The commodity is an important cash crop for Malaysia, but is under threat of a sharp decline in demand as the European Commission has deemed palm oil-based biofuel to be unsustainable due to excessive deforestation.
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One solution is using plants — either rotating crops or using ground cover such as grass, depending on what's needed to repair the soil — to cover the soil before and after the main cash crop is planted.
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About 2 million of the 17.8 million hectares planted with soy, Argentina's main cash crop, have been damaged by heavy rains related to the El Nino weather phenomenon this season, Argentina's two main grains exchanges told Reuters.
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"It's a severe threat," said Doug Welsh, the vice president of coffee at Peet's Coffee and a member of the board of World Coffee Research, an international group founded by coffee companies intent on protecting their cash crop.
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Coffee is still the key cash crop for Dak Lak, Vietnam's largest coffee-producing province, although durians, jack fruit, mangoes and avocado trees have all been intercropped with coffee trees to maximize income in recent years, farmers told Reuters.
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Coffee is still the key cash crop for Dak Lak, Vietnam's largest coffee-producing province, although durians, jack fruit, mangoes and avocado trees have all been intercropped with coffee trees to maximise income in recent years, farmers told Reuters.
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In a video posted to Youtube last year titled, "Don't Cash Crop On My Cornrows," she spoke about the problem with white people taking pieces of black culture without showing the same level of admiration for people of color.
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They know another gringo with access to planes and an airstrip, and Raphayet persuades Aníbal (Juan Martínez), Úrsula's cousin and a patriarch in his own right, to devote some of his fields and manpower to the new cash crop.
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Most sugar was cultivated in the Caribbean and South America, but the Southern colonies of British America and subsequent states like Florida, Texas and Louisiana — the most infamous of the sugar states — entered the brutal cash crop sweepstakes as well.
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That the nickel crop might be so productive and lucrative has led to fears that farmers might push for opening tropical forests for cultivation, foreshadowing another case such as palm oil, a cash crop that has devastated Borneo's native forests.
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US-China trade battle: How we got here And tariffs on soybeans, a cash crop for much of the Midwest, could impact key Senate races in North Dakota and Ohio, two states in the top 10 of soybean producing states.
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It has made it to the forefront of the country's politics several times since the early 70s, when, according to Kadzamira, the Government of Independence leader, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, debated whether to establish tobacco or cannabis as the country's primary cash crop.
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If this way of conserving polar bears continues, the "harvesting," the actual murder of polar bears as a cash crop, will come to a climax and one day, with the added challenge of climate change, they will quite simply be no more.
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KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - An annual U.S. soy exporters' conference wrapped up on Wednesday without any known sales to Chinese buyers, in sharp contrast to previous years where billions of dollars of the main U.S. cash crop have been signed over to China in elaborate ceremonies.
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As much as farmers may want to hang onto their wheat crops to take advantage of the swooning peso, they will need to sell at least some of their stocks to buy seeds and inputs for planting of the country's main cash crop, soybeans, in October.
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It was one of several moves by Macri to bolster confidence after weeks of volatility sparked by a new tax on foreign investors, weak fundamentals, including 25 percent inflation and worries about financial fallout from a drought that has walloped the harvest of Argentina's main cash crop, soy.
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Aside from the tireless campaigning by Kadzamira and his allies, a major catalyst for the proposed legalization is hope that hemp will revive Malawi's struggling economy, which is in a dire situation following a severe drought in southern Africa and decline in global tobacco consumption, its current cash crop.
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And with no international institution to represent them because of the illegality of marijuana in most of the world -- even the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, whose mandate is to fight rural poverty and hunger, has no experts or policy on this cash crop -- growers risk being left behind.
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"From a more fundamental perspective it is difficult to argue that the peso even at 23 or 24 is cheap," he added, pointing to the likely need of further devaluation to reduce the current account deficit and problems with this season's harvest of soybeans, Argentina's main cash crop, after drenching rains.
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Regarding the country's main cash crop, soybeans, no more planting area losses are expected for the 2017/18 season and the size of the harvest hinges on February rains, which will be crucial after three consecutive months of near constant sun, ministry Chief of Staff Santiago del Solar said in an interview.
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Tens of thousands of US farmers like Boyer—facing increasing pressure from shrinking profit margins—hope that it could be the next big cash crop, and both advocates and farmers earned a major victory when the plant was legalized at the federal level under the 22019 Farm Bill, thanks in part to support from Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell.
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The main reason for the increase, according to Mohammad Hanif Danishyar, spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of Counter-Narcotics, was the deteriorating security situation in parts of the country, which meant that eradication plans could not be implemented, Eradication teams in Afghanistan who monitor and destroy the growth of poppy have come under direct attack from farmers and insurgents, who want to protect what to them is a lucrative cash crop.
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Diseases introduced by the West continued to decimate the kanaka maoli — by 1920, fewer than 24,000 were reported on the United States Census, down from an estimated 8003,000 nearly a century and a half ago — and in a symbiotic decline, taro pond fields, or lo'i, were converted to rice paddies or else left dry as the streams that fed them were siphoned off to nourish sugar cane, a plant that was brought to the islands alongside taro by the ancient Polynesians and that rose to prominence as a cash crop when the American Civil War suspended sugar supplies from the South.
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