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CROPS CLASSIFICATION

Crops are plants or plant substances that are planted and harvested for the use of
humans and well being of living things on the earth. A crop is a plant or animal product
allowed to grow and harvested for profit purposes. The crops can be consumed for daily
uses as food like grains, vegetables, etc., and can be traded commercially. Most
farmers do grow different types of crops in India and other countries on various farms.
The crops can be classified

Commercial classification
Food crops - cereals – Rice, wheat,Pulses, fruits, vegetables

Industrial crops - Cotton, Sugarcane, tobacco, groundnut, castor, gingelly, tapioca,

Food adjunct crops - spices and condiments

AGE CLASSIFICATION
Annual Crops -completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds,
within one year

• Perennial Crops- meaning the plants can live for more than two years

• Biennial Crops- is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its
biological lifecycle

CLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION
TROPICAL CROPS-Grown in tropical climate in which all twelve months
have mean temperatures of warmer than 18 °C

SUBTROPICAL CROPS- temperature greater than 10 °C and at least one month with
a mean temperature under 18 °C

TEMPERATE CROPS-Temperature gradient between 4 °C in winterand in summer


roughly 14 °C

ZONE CLASSIFICATION
Arid Zone- when it is characterized by a severe lack of water

Desert Zone- is a barren area , where little or no rains occurs


Semi-arid Zone is the climate of a region that receives rain below potential
evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate

Humid Zone- the mean temperature of the coldest month below −3 °C and for four
months mean temperature above 10 °C

CROPS based on land:

WET LAND-A distinct ecosystem that is inundated by water, either permanently or


seasonally

DRY LAND - agricultural techniques for the non-irrigated cultivation of crops

GARDEN LAND - planned irrigated cultivation

GENERAL CROP CLASSIFICATION


CEREALS

Rice

Wheat

Barley

Maize

Rye

Oats

Major Millets
1 Sorghum / Cholam /Jowar

2 Bajra / Cumbu / Pearl millet

3 Ragi

PULSES
Redgram - Pigeonpea
Black gram - Urd bean

Greengram- Mungbean

Bengalgram -Chickpea

Cowpea -Karamani

Horse gram -Kollu

Soy bean -Soya mochai

Peas -Pattani

Garden bean -Lablab-Avarai

OIL SEEDS
Groundnut (pea nut)

Sesame (Gingelly)

Coconut

Sunflower

Castor
Mustard

Safflower

FIBRE CROPS

COTTON
JUTE
SUGAR CROPS

Sugarcane

Sugar beet
Sweet potato

HORTICULTURAL CRORS
FRUITS
VEGETABLES
FLOWERS
SPICES & CONDIMENTS
MEDICINAL PLANTS
PLANTATION CROPS

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