These are potentially lucrative crops, but they involve enormous inputs of capital and expensive investment in irrigation.

This lucrative crop increased the value of the land which benefited land speculators in the area.

They are grown for their oil and many a farm field has been devoted to raising this lucrative crop.

Big Midwestern wheat and corn farmers cheered the changes that would allow them to plant the most lucrative crops.

Cotton was the "second most lucrative crop in California".

But they are ambivalent about this lucrative crop.

High prices for the lucrative crop may also have helped fuel demand this year.

As a lucrative crop, tobacco has been the subject of a great deal of biological and genetic research.

But it remains about 15 times as lucrative as the best cash crop.

The most lucrative crops grown in the region include rice, coffee, and corn.