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### Crops Classification

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IMAGE 2.4 | FAO Crop Suitablity Approach 1 | FAO database 2
Food crops
Temperate cereals | Wheat (spring) | Barley, oats
Wheat (winter) | Rye, wheat
Rice | Rice | Rice, paddy
Maize | Maize (temperate) | Maize
Maize (tropical)
Tropical cereals | Millet (temperate, tropical) | Millets
Sorghum (temperate, tropical) | Sorghum
Pulses | Beans (temperate, tropical) | Dry beans, dry peas, chick peas, dry broad beans, green beans, green peas, lentils
Roots & tubers | Cassava, potato | Cassava, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams
Oil crops | Groundnut, sesame, soya bean, sunflower (temperate, tropical) | Groundnuts, rapeseed, sesameseed, soybeans, sunflowerseed
Biofuel crops
Sugar cane | Sugar cane | -
Maize | Maize
Woody biomass | Fuelwood species in Adaptability group I, II
Non-woody biomass | Grass species in Adaptability group III, IV
Feed crops
Grass & fodder species | Legume species in Adaptability group I, II | -
Grass species in Adaptability group III, IV
Rainfall based pasture productivity
1 For foodcrops see FAO, 1981. Report on the Agro-Ecological Zones Project. Volume 3. Methodology and Results for South and Central America. World Soil Resources Report 48/3, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1978-1981 For fuelwood, grass and legume species: Kassam, A., H. van Velthuizen, G. Fischer and M. Shah, 1991. Agro-ecological land resources assessment for agricultural development planning. A case study of Kenya. Resources database and land productivity. Technical Annex 5. Livestock productivity. World Soil Reources Report 71/5, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. And for rainfall-based pasture productivity: Pagot, J., 1991. Animal production in the tropics. Macmillan, London. pp. 2 FAOSTAT database collections. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.