sunset crop

English

Noun

sunset crop (plural sunset crops)

1. A type of agricultural crop that is not expected to be commercially viable much longer.
   • 1995, The Planter - Volume 71, Issues 826-837, page 297:

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

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

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

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

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

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