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| Temperate cereals | Wheat (spring) | Barley, oats |
| Wheat (winter) | Rye, wheat | |
| Rice | Rice | Rice, paddy |
| Maize | Maize (temperate) | Maize |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| Grass & fodder species | Legume species in Adaptability group I, II | - |
| Grass species in Adaptability group III, IV | ||
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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. |
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