Describe the Agronomic/economic classification of plants

      

Describe the Agronomic/economic classification of plants

  

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Felix
1.Cereal or Grain crops.

Cereals are grasses grown for their edible seeds, the term cereal being applied either to the grain or to the plant itself
Cereals include wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, maize, sorghum, millets, etc

2.Legumes
These include pea nuts, field beans, cowpeas, soybeans, lima beans, mug beans, chickpeas, pigeon peas, broad beans and lentils
They all belong to the family Leguminosae and are grown for their edible seeds.

3.Oil crops
The oil crops include soya bean, peanuts, sunflower, safflower, sesame, castor bean, mustard, cotton seed, corn and grain sorghum, rape, flax and perilla.
The seeds contain some useful oils

4.Root and tuber crops
These include sugar beets, carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, cassava, potatoes and cocoyam.

5. Fibre crops
These are grown for their fibre. They include cotton, jute, kenaf, hemp, ramie and sisal.

6.Sugar crops
These are crops that are grown for their sweet juice from which sucrose is extracted and crystallised
They include sugar cane and sugar beet.

7.Forage crops
These are vegetable matter, fresh or preserved that are utilised as feeds for animals
They include grasses, legumes, crucifers and other cultivated crops.

8.Vegetable crops
This group includes potatoes, tomatoes and onions.

9.Rubber crops/latex crops
These crops which include Para rubber are grown for the milky sap, or latex which they produce

10.Beverage crops
These crops are also sources of stimulants
They include tea, coffee and cocoa.





Anganifelix answered the question on June 11, 2018 at 10:04


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