Crops Classification

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FAO Crop Suitablity Approach 1
FAO database 2

Food crops

Temperate cereals Wheat (spring) Barley, oats
Wheat (winter) Rye, wheat
Rice Rice Rice, paddy
Maize Maize (temperate) Maize
Maize (tropical)
Tropical cereals Millet (temperate, tropical) Millets
Sorghum (temperate, tropical) Sorghum
Pulses Beans (temperate, tropical) Dry beans, dry peas, chick peas, dry broad beans, green beans, green peas, lentils
Roots & tubers Cassava, potato Cassava, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams
Oil crops Groundnut, sesame, soya bean, sunflower (temperate, tropical) Groundnuts, rapeseed, sesameseed, soybeans, sunflowerseed

Biofuel crops

Sugar cane Sugar cane -
Maize Maize
Woody biomass Fuelwood species in Adaptability group I, II
Non-woody biomass Grass species in Adaptability group III, IV

Feed crops

Grass & fodder species Legume species in Adaptability group I, II -
Grass species in Adaptability group III, IV
Rainfall based pasture productivity

1 For foodcrops see FAO, 1981. Report on the Agro-Ecological Zones Project. Volume 3. Methodology and Results for South and Central America. World Soil Resources Report 48/3, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1978-1981

For fuelwood, grass and legume species: Kassam, A., H. van Velthuizen, G. Fischer and M. Shah, 1991. Agro-ecological land resources assessment for agricultural development planning. A case study of Kenya. Resources database and land productivity. Technical Annex 5. Livestock productivity. World Soil Reources Report 71/5, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

And for rainfall-based pasture productivity: Pagot, J., 1991. Animal production in the tropics. Macmillan, London. pp.
2 FAOSTAT database collections. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

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