The world's 9 major food crops

(Baonghean) - Food crops are plants whose products are used as food for people, the main source of energy and carbohydrates in the food rations for the entire population of the world.

1. Wet rice

Rice is one of the world's five major food crops, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southeast Asia and Africa. It provides more than one-fifth of all calories consumed by humans.

2. Corn

Corn is an important cereal in the world, ranking third after wheat and rice. Of which, the United States produces 40.62% of the total corn output and 59.38% is produced by other countries. The average annual corn export output in the world is from 82.6 to 86.7 million tons. Of which, the United States exports 64.41% of the total output and other countries account for 35.59%.

3. Potatoes

Potatoes are a short-day agricultural crop, the most widely grown tuber crop in the world, and the fourth largest crop in terms of fresh produce – after rice, wheat and maize. Potatoes originated in Peru. It is now believed that potatoes were introduced to Europe around the 1570s and were subsequently carried to territories around the world by European seafarers.

4. Wheat

Wheat is a group of domesticated grasses from the Levant and widely cultivated throughout the world. Overall, wheat is an important food for humans, its production is second only to maize and rice among cereal crops. Wheat grain is a common food grain used to make flour for the production of bread; noodles, cakes, candies... as well as fermented to produce beer, wine, or biofuel.

5. Cassava

Cassava is an annual root crop. Thailand accounts for over 85% of global cassava exports, followed by Indonesia and Vietnam. Thailand's main cassava export markets are China, Taiwan, Japan and the European Community, with cassava exports accounting for about 40% of cassava flour and starch, and 25% of cassava chips and pellets.

6. Sweet potatoes

Sweet potato is an agricultural crop with large, starchy, sweet-tasting tubers. It is an important source of root vegetables, used as both a vegetable and a food crop. Sweet potato is used as human food, animal feed, and as an ingredient in the production of starch, wine, alcohol, syrup, soft drinks, confectionery, noodles, vermicelli, pharmaceutical additives, and biofilms.

7. Sorghum

Sorghum is a staple crop in Asia and Africa and is used around the world to feed poultry and livestock. Scientists are now working to improve the crop by introducing cold tolerance into sorghum, allowing it to be grown in more places and in early spring, when humidity is higher.

8. Chicken

Millet is a general name for several cereals with grass-like stems like rice, small seeds, at first glance similar to cogon grass but the seeds are larger and fuller. Millet is used as food like rice for humans or birds. Millet is a group of similar-looking but different food plants, an important food source in Asia and Africa and for feeding poultry and livestock.

9. Barley

Barley is a cereal crop grown for malt production and to feed livestock and poultry in areas where the soil is too cold or too poor.

Kim Ngoc

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