Fibrous root crops

Plants that are cultivated for their parts which are used as staple food are known as staple crops. These are the crop parts that are consumed on a daily basis as a traditional diet. For example: rice, maize, wheat, barley, buckwheat, millet.

Those crops that are cultivated mainly for the production of edible/other useful oil. For example: perilla, sesame, sunflower, soybean, peanut.

Those crops that produce seeds and are propagated through seeds are known as seed propagated crops. For Example: mango, apple, maize, wheat.