Classification of Crop Agronomy Table 7

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 1.Commercial Classification
Based on the plant products which come into the commercial field are grouped as:

Food crops
Rice Wheat Green gram
soybean Groundnut  
Forage crops
All fodders Oats Sorghum
Maize Napier grass Lucerne
Industrial/Commercial crops
Cotton Sugarcane Sugarbeet
Tobacco jute  
Food adjuvunts
Turmeric Garlic Cumin

 2.Economic/Agrarian/Agricultural Classification 

This classification is based on use of crop plants and their products.

Cereals
Rice Wheat Maize
Barley Oats  
Major Millets
Sorghum Pearl Millet or cumbu Finger millet or Ragi.
Minor Millets
Fox tail millet, Little millet Common millet
Barnyard millet Kodo millet  
Oil seeds
Groundnut Sesamum or Gingelly Sunflower
Castor Cotton Linseed or Flax
Niger Safflower Mustard
Pulses
Red gram Black gram Green gram
Cowpea Bengal gram Horse gram
Soybean Garden-bean Garden pea / Peas
Feed/Forage
Bajra Napier grass Guinea grass
Fodder-sorghum Desmanthus Lucerne
Fibre crops
Seed fibre, Cotton Stem fibre-jute, Mesta, Leaf fibre, Agave, Pineapple.
Sugar and starch crops
Sugarcane Sugarbeet Potato
Tapioca Sweet potato Asparagus
Spices and condiments
Ginger Garlic Fenugreek
Cumin Turmeric Chillies
Onion Coriander Anise and Asafetida
Drug crops/medicinal plants
Tobacco Mint   
Narcotics, fumitories and masticatories 
Tobacco Ganja Opium poppy
Beverages
Tea Coffee Cocoa

 3.Seasonal Classification 

Kharif or South West Monsoon season crops
Maize, rice Castor Groundnut
Rabi crops/post monsoon crops
Wheat Mustard Barley
Oats Bengal gram Berseem
Cauliflower Cabbage Potato
Zaid or summer crops
Black gram Green gram Cowpea, Sesame

 4.According to Ontogeny

It is a classification based on the life cycle of a plant.

Annual crops
Wheat Maize Rice
Mustard Bengal gram Barley
Biennial crops
Sugar beet Beet root Radish
Cabbage Carrot  
Perennial crops
Sugarcane Napier grass  

 5.According to suitability of toposequence 

Crops grown on upland
Red gram Maize Groundnut
Mustard Cotton, Napier  Barley
Crops grown on lowland
Rice Daincha Para grass
Jute    

 6.According to the suitability of the textural groups of soils 

Crops suitable to sandy to sandy loam (light) soils 
Sorghum Bajra Sunflower
Potato Green gram Onion, Carrot.
Crops suitable to silty loam (medium) soils
Jute Sugarcane Maize
Cotton Mustard Tobacco
Redgram Bengalgram Cowpea
Crop suitable to clay loam (heavy) soils
Rice Wheat Guinea grass
Linseed Barley Lentil
Marvel grass Para grass  

 7.According to tolerance to problem soils 

Tolerant to acidic soils
Wet Rice Potato Mustard
Tolerant to saline soils
Chillies Cucurbits Wheat, Barley 
Sorghum Cluster beans Bajra
Tolerant to alkali/sodic soils
Barley Cotton Bengalgram
Berseem Sunflower Maize
 Tolerant to waterlogged soils
Wet rice Daincha Para grass
Napier grass Guinea grass  
Crops tolerant to soil erosion
Marvel grass Groundnut Blackgram
Moth bean Horse gram  

 8.According to the tolerance to hazardous weather condition 

Frost tolerant
Sugar beet Beet root.  
Cold tolerant
Potato Cabbage Mustard
Drought tolerant
Bajra Jowar Barley
Safflower Castor  

 9.According to method of sowing/planting 

Direct seeded crop
Upland rice Bajra Jowar
Wheat Groundnut   
Planted crops
Potato Sugarcane Sweet potato
Napier grass Guinea grass  
Transplanted crops
Rice Ragi Bajra
Onion Barley Tobacco, Brinjal

 10.According to inter-tillage requirement specially earthing up 

Intertilled crops
Potato Sweet potato, Groundnut
Maize Sugarcane Turmeric
Non-Intertilled crops
Fodder sorghum Deenanath grass  Para grass 

 11.According to length of field duration of crops 

Very short duration crops (upto 75 days)
Pulses    
Short duration crops (75–100 days)
Sunflower Cauliflower Upland rice
Medium duration crops (100–125 days )
Jowar Wheat Bajra
Groundnut Sesame Jute
Long duration crops (125–150 days)
Mustard Tobacco Cotton
Very long duration crops: above 150 days
Sugarcane Red gram Castor

 12.According to the method of harvesting 

Reaping
Rice Wheat  
 Uprooting by pulling
 Bengal gram Black gram Lentil, Rapeseed
Uprooting by digging
Potato Sweet potato Groundnut
Carrot    
Picking
Cotton Vegetables Brinjal
Bhendi Chillies  
Priming
Tobacco    
Cutting
Berseem Napier Amaranthus
Grazing
Para grass kolukkattai grass Stylo

 13.Based on crops growing soil condition 

Psammophytes (Sandy soil)
Castor
Lithophytes (Rock surface)
Ferns
 Chasmophytes (Rock crack)
Potato
Acedophytes (Acid soil)
Potato
Basophytes (Alkali soil)
Rice
Calciphytes (Basic soil)
Asparagus
Halophytes (Saline soil)
 Sugar beet, Alfalfa

 14.According to post harvest requirement 

Curing
Tobacco Mustard
Stripping
Jute Sunnhemp
Shelling
Groundnut  
Ginning
Cotton  
Seasoning
Turmeric chillies
Grading and sorting
Potato, Wheat Rice, Fibre crops

 15.Based on climatic condition 

Tropical crop
Coconut Sugarcane
Sub-tropical crop
Rice Cotton
Temperate crop
Wheat Barley, Mustard
Polar crop
All pines Pasture grasses

 16.Relative Humidity is Related to Crop 

Very high RH is beneficial to crop
Maize Sorghum, Sugarcane (C4 Plants)
Very high RH is Harmful to crop
Sunflower Tobacco

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