marketable yield
- noun
- Specialized
:
rendimiento comercializable
- Combining all harvests, total marketable yield was 20 percent greater for plants grown in compost-amended transplant media.
- total marketable yield
Examples
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Yields from all harvests were combined to obtain total marketable yield.
Academic text (2001) -
The farmer calculated the marketable yield of corn from each field to determine profitability.
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However, in the case of dedicated biofuel crops (i.e., cellulose-based energy), the marketable yield is the entire aboveground biomass.
Academic text (2008) -
After assessing the quality of the fruits, the gardener reported a high marketable yield this season.
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The study revealed that fertilizer use can significantly increase the marketable yield of vegetables.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the portion of a crop that can be sold' is directly derivable from combining 'marketable' (capable of being sold) with 'yield' (amount produced). This is a regular compositional noun phrase following standard English modification patterns (and parallels exist in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Marketable yield comes from the simple image of a farmer sorting a harvest: yield is what the land produces and marketable means 'fit to sell'. So, marketable yield is the part of the crop that is good enough to be sold.
