Overview
Identify crop plant forms
Classify crops according to forms, life span, uses, and types
State the various uses of crops
What you'll learn
- Crop Plant Forms:
- - Monocotyledonous e.g. maize, guinea corn.
- - Dicotyledonous e.g. bean, melon
- Classification of Crops based on:
- - Life span:
- - annuals (e.g. maize, yam), etc.
- - Perennials (e.g. cocoa, mango), etc
- Uses of Crops:
- - food e.g. cereals, tubers, pulses, fruits and vegetables
- - oil crops
- - spices
- - latex
- - beverage
- - fiber
- - source of carbohydrate, protein, fat and oil, minerals, vitamin etc