Fruit crop as it could be (8)
I believe the answer is:
apricots
'fruit' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'crop as it could be' is the wordplay.
'could be' indicates anagramming the letters.
'crop'+'as'+'it'='cropasit'
'cropasit' is an anagram of 'APRICOTS'.
(Other definitions for apricots that I've seen before include "Car is top (anag.)" , "Orange fruit" , "Capri sot makes the fruit" , "Rio pacts about the fruits" , "Tip Oscar to get the fruits" .)