Classification According to Uses and Types

WEEK 7&8

Classification According to Uses and Types

There are many classes of crops depending on their types and uses. These are cereals, legumes, tubers, vegetables, fruits, beverages, oils, drugs, spices, latex and sugar crops.

Cereals

These are plants that are grown to produce grains used for food by man and animals. They are mostly in the form of grasses. Examples of cereals are maize, rice, millet, guinea corn, sorghum and wheat. Examples are

• Millet

• Rice

• Sorghum

Uses

• As raw materials for industries

• For feeding domestic animals.
• For making starch.
• As pap for a meal, especially breakfast.
• Roasted, boiled, and eaten, e.g. maize.
• Cooked as food, e.g. rice.

• For making flour used in baking bread and producing biscuits, e.g. wheat.

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