sunset crop

plural sunset crops

1. A type of agricultural crop that is not expected to be commercially viable much longer.

   Cocoa is "a sunset" crop. We should diversify our production.

   2003, K. B. Asante, Voice from Afar: A Ghanaian Experience, page 96

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   It would seem therefore that the rubber tree need no longer be considered as a "sunset crop"

   1995, The Planter - Volume 71, Issues 826-837, page 297

   Negros Oriental is also more diversified economically than its Western cousin, Negros Occidental, which is overly dependent on the sunset crop sugar.

   2001, Bernardo M. Villegas, The Philippine Advantage, →ISBN, page 319

   The health-promoting properties of coconut are increasingly being recognised. Yet coconut is too often seen as a sunset crop, with little future, unable to compete in export markets with palm kernel oil and, more recently, with generally modified rapeseed oil.

   2003, Mike Foale, The Coconut Odyssey: The Bounteous Possibilities of the Tree of Life, →ISBN