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Classification Crops

The document classifies crops based on various criteria including botany, growing season, special purpose, cultural method, root system, and number of cotyledons. It categorizes crops into groups such as cereal, pulse, tuber, oilseed, and medicinal crops, among others. Additionally, it distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated crops, as well as monocots and dicots.

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Classification Crops

The document classifies crops based on various criteria including botany, growing season, special purpose, cultural method, root system, and number of cotyledons. It categorizes crops into groups such as cereal, pulse, tuber, oilseed, and medicinal crops, among others. Additionally, it distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated crops, as well as monocots and dicots.

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Classification of crops

Classification of crops as per botany


• Cereal crops (rice, wheat, hemp etc)
maize etc)
• Tuber crops (potato, sweet
• Pulse crops (mung, arhar, urd, potato etc)
gram etc)
• Sugar crops (sugarcane,
• Oil seed crops (rapeseed- sugarbeet etc)
mustard, sesame, soybean, peanut
etc) • Millets (jowar, bajra, ragi etc)
• Forage crops (sorghum, • Stimulate crops (tobacco)
barseem, lucern etc) • Medicinal crops (isabgul,
• Root crops (taro, yam, turnip brahmi, ashwagandha etc)
etc)
• Aromatic crops (lemon grass,
• Fibre crops (jute, cotton, flax, mentha, tulsi, citronella)
Classification on the basis of growing
season
• Kharif or Rainy season crop
Grown during July – October

• Rabi or Winter season crop


Grown during November – March

• Pre-Kharif or Summer or Zaid crop


Grown during April – June
Classification based on special purpose
• Arable crops • Contour crops
• Aromatic crops • Cover crops
• Alley crops • Complementary crops
(Sorghum+cowpea)
• Augment crops (japanese
mustard with seem) • Energy crops (potato, maize,
sugarcane)
• Avenue crops (grown along
with road and fence) • Mulch crops
• Border/guard crops (thorny • Utera/ paira crops
crops grown on the border)
• Trap crop
• Cash crops (sugarcane, tobacco,
• Truck crop (Growing vegetable
cotton etc) crops in large scale for fresh
• Catch/contingent crops shipment to distant markets.
Tomato, potato, lettuce etc)
• (short duration pulses)
Classification based on cultural
method/ water

• Rainfed crops
Crops grow only on rain water, e.g Jowar, Bajra, Mung
etc.

• Irrigated crops
Crops grown with the help of irrigation water, e.g,. Chili,
sugarcane, Banana, papaya etc.
Classification based on root system
• Tap root system
The main root goes deep into the soil. e.g. Tur,
Grape, Cotton etc.

• Fibrous root system


The crops whose roots are fibrous shallow &
spreading into the soil. e.g. Cereal crops,
wheat, rice etc.
Classification based on no. of
cotyledon
• Monocots or monocotyledons
Having one cotyledon in the seed.
e.g. all cereals & Millets.

• Dicots or dicotyledonous
Crops having two cotyledons in
the seed. e.g. all legumes &
pulses.

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