Fodder crops are crops grown for the purpose of being produced as animal feed. Fodder is also known as forage and is fed to animals in the form of straw, hay, silage, grain, greenfeed, baleage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, legumes, sprouted grains, grain by-product, animal by-product (especially with feeding hogs and poultry), cull vegetables and starches, etc. Certain crops like berseem, corn, sorghum, milo, wheat, oats, sudan grass, alfalfa, timothy, and grass-legume hay mixes are such used as a means to create fodder or animal feed for livestock.
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.
beverage crops.
Grass, alfalfa, clover, and timothy are all used for livestock fodder.
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.
fodder is the food for cattle and forage crop is food for animals & horses.
Zayed crops are crops which are grown between the Kharif and Rabi seasons. Examples: Watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fodder crops.
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.
Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, UP, MP, MH
main crops: corn, mais, potatoes also: sugar beets, fodder beets, tobacco, hop, chicory, flax, beans
Millets are variable small seeded grasses. These are used to grow cereal crops and grains for fodder and human food.
Grains, bread, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit.
Grains(wheat,rye,oat,barley..), potatoes, rape, vegetables, fruit(apples,pears,peaches,apricots,plums, berries...), fodder crops