acropthatprovidesarawmaterial(=basicsubstanceused to make something)for use inindustry:There aregrantsfordevelopingnewindustrialcropstogenerateenergy.(Definition ofindustrial cropfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofindustrial crop
industrial cropIt was important as anindustrialcropto build nets and lines for catching fish and other marine resources.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In agriculture, tea is important to the economy and is the mainindustrialcrop.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Flax was another importantindustrialcropwhat has several uses.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The agricultural sector, faced with the same pressures, specialized in two directions: less labor-intensive livestock raising on the one hand, and very labor-intensiveindustrialcropproduction on the other.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cotton is grown as anindustrialcrop.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Further pressure will arise if substantial areas of land, including grassland, are converted to biomass or otherindustrialcropproduction.From theCambridge English CorpusWe should welcome, therefore, the expansion ofindustrialcropactivity and the opportunities provided for diversification.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThere is no mention in the scheme of anyindustrialcrop.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It is a pureindustrialcrop, with animal feed byproducts.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Once popular industrial crops like tobacco and cotton are no more popular.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/industrial-crop##
