The main food crops of the world

Food crops are crops whose products serve as food for human consumption, the main source of energy and carbohydrate powder in diets for the world's population.

Currently, there are five major crops grown in the world, including: maize (Zea Mays L.), water rice (Oryza sativa L.), wheat (Triticum sp. Other names: microcircuits), cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz other names cassava) and potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.). In particular, corn, rice and wheat account for about 87% of global food production and about 43% of calories from all food and foodstuffs. Vietnam's four major food crops are rice, corn, cassava and sweet potatoes.

Here are some information and pictures of food crops grown in popularity in Vietnam and around the world:

Rice

Wet rice is one of the five main food crops of the world.

Wet rice is one of the world's five major food crops, originating in the tropical and subtropical regions of southeast Asia and Africa. These two species provide more than one-fifth of all calories consumed by humans.

Wu

Corn is an important grain in the world, ranking third after wheat and rice.

Corn is an important grain in the world, ranking third after wheat and rice. In which the United States produced 40.62% of the total corn production and 59.38% produced by other countries. The annual export volume of maize in the world averages from 82.6 to 86.7 million tons. In particular, the US exported 64.41% of total production and other countries accounted for 35.59%.

Potato

Potatoes originated from Peru.

The potato is a short-term agricultural crop, cultivated with starch-containing tubers, the world's largest tuber crop, and the fourth most popular crop in terms of fresh yields - behind rice, wheat and corn. Potatoes originated from Peru, in the study published by David Spooner in 2005, the home of potatoes is a region in southern Peru. It is now thought that potatoes were introduced to Europe around the 1570s and then it was brought to European territories by European seafarers.

Wheat

Wheat is an important food for humans.

Wheat or vein is a group of domesticated grasses from the Levant region and cultivated throughout the world. Overall, wheat is an important food for mankind, its output is second only to corn and rice among food crops. Wheat grain is a common food used to make flour in the production of breads; noodles, cakes, sweets, etc., as well as being fermented to produce beer, wine, or biofuels.

Cassava

Cassava is an annual food crop.

Cassava is an annual root crop, able to live for a long time, belonging to Euphorbiaceae castor family. Cassava is 2-3m high, canopy diameter is 50-100 cm. Leaves turn into many lobes, can be used to make livestock feed. Horizontal roots develop tubers and accumulate starch. Cassava has a growth period of 6 to 12 months, up to 18 months, depending on variety, planting season, planting area and use purpose. Thailand accounts for over 85% of global cassava exports, followed by Indonesia and Vietnam. The main cassava export market of Thailand is China, Taiwan, Japan and the European community with the proportion of exporting cassava about 40% of cassava flour and starch, 25% of cassava and pellet.

Sweet potato

Sweet potatoes are used in the role of both vegetables and food.

Sweet potato is an agricultural plant with large roots, starchy, sweet. It is an important source of root vegetables, used in both vegetables and food. Sweet potatoes are used as food for people, feed and raw materials for processing starch, alcohol, alcohol, syrup, soft drinks, confectionery, noodles, vermicelli, pharmaceutical additives, biofilm.

Sago

Sorghum is a food crop in Asia, Africa and used around the world to feed poultry and livestock.

Sorghum (sorghum) is one of the most important cereal crops in the world. Sorghum is a food crop in Asia, Africa and used around the world to feed poultry and livestock. Currently, scientists are looking to improve this plant by bringing cold tolerance to sorghum to allow sorghum to grow in more places and grow both in the early spring, when Moisture becomes higher.

Statistics

Millions make food like rice for people to eat or birds.

Millet is a common name for a few cereals with grass stalks like rice and small seeds, which at first glance are similar to grasses but larger and larger seeds. Millions make food like rice for people to eat or birds. It is a group of food plants that look similar but different, an important food source in Asia and Africa and to feed poultry and livestock.

Barley

This is a food crop grown for malt production and poultry farming.

Barley is a food crop grown to produce malt and poultry, cattle in too cold areas or too poor soil.