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What is the difference between horticultural crops and agronomic crops?
Horticultural crops are typically grown for their aesthetic, nutritional, or medicinal value and include fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. In contrast, agronomic crops are cultivated primarily for their economic value and include grains, legumes, and fiber crops, which are often grown on a larger scale for commercial purposes. Horticultural crops usually require more intensive management and care, while agronomic crops are often managed with broader agricultural practices. Additionally, horticultural crops may have a higher value per unit area but lower overall yield compared to agronomic crops.
What is the Distinct characteristics of the height categories of agronomic crops?
Agronomic crops can be categorized into height categories such as short, medium, and tall, each with distinct characteristics. Short crops, like certain varieties of wheat, tend to have a sturdier structure, allowing them to withstand harsh weather and resist lodging. Medium-height crops, such as corn, offer a balance between yield potential and mechanical harvesting efficiency. Tall crops, like sorghum, typically have higher productivity due to increased photosynthetic capacity but may require more management to prevent lodging.
What is the difference between food crops and fodder crops?
Food crops are crops grown for human consumption such as vegetables and fruit. Fodder crops such as hay, corn, and sorghum are grown for livestock to eat.
Name any two fodder crops?
beverage crops.
Why are tallness and profuse branching desirable traits for fodder crops?
Because the tallness enables the fodder crops to be easy to cut for hay or silage, and the profuse branching, especially with alfalfa, makes it easy for machines like the baler to pick up the swath without much waste. In some fodder crops, like in grass, profuse branching happens on a more microscopic level at ground level, making these grasses, called bunch grasses, desirable for grazing instead of for hay.
What crops comprise livestock fodder?
Grass, alfalfa, clover, and timothy are all used for livestock fodder.
What are leguminous and non-leguminous fodder crops?
Leguminous fodder crops include:CloverAlfalfaSanfoinBird's Foot TrefoilLaspadenzaCicer MilkvetchField PeasNon-Leguminous fodder crops include:TimothyOrchard grassCornBarleyTriticaleSmooth Brome GrassMeadow Brome GrassKentucky Blue GrassBlue Gamma GrassBermuda GrassBuffalo GrassRed Canary GrassJohnson GrassIt should be noted that all grasses even those not listed here are non-leguminous fodder crops.
What are four categories of crop?
The classification of horticultural crops varies depending on the parameters and types of crops being classified. They can be classified by seasons, plant lifespan, usage, physiological and growth characteristics, and climate requirements.
Difference between fodder and forage crops?
fodder is the food for cattle and forage crop is food for animals & horses.
Define zayed crops with one example?
Zayed crops are crops which are grown between the Kharif and Rabi seasons. Examples: Watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fodder crops.
What is the importance of fodder crops to livestock?
Fodder crops are incredibly important to livestock, especially cattle. Feeding cattle and grazing them ultimately depends on the production of forage crops because these animals will not nor can not eat anything else. Cattle are herbivores and designed to eat plants that are impossible for us humans to eat, so in order for us to get beef and milk from these animals, we had--and have--to feed them according to what they can, will, and need to eat. Thus, no matter how or what cattle are fed, they all source from fodder crops.
Which Indian states are fodder crops found in?
Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, UP, MP, MH
