Yes it can be though different areas produce different cash crops.
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no. cash crops are generally things you can't eat, but things you can bargain, and typically grow in hot hot climates. cash crops are indigo, tobacco, cotton, etc.
Rice was the most profitable cash crop.
mostly tobbaco rice and indigo
The cash crop list from several southern colonies included rice, corn, tea and coffee. However, tobacco was the main cash crop in most colonies.
Rice was not a cash crop for the southern colonies but tobacco, indigo, and corn wheat were. In addition, perhaps the biggest cash crop grown in the southern colonies was cotton. The South grew to rely so heavily on cotton and the money it generated that it began to direct their society, leading to the Southern dependence on slavery.
Sugarcane was not a major cash crop in the South. Some of the major cash crops were cotton and tobacco.