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Agronomy includes the crops which are used for food purpose and are known as staple crops. Well-known staple food crops are wheat, rice, corn, beans, etc. Major cultivated crops can be classified on the basis of their purpose. On the basis of this classification, major types of agronomic crops can be cereal, oil seed crop, pulses, fibre crops, sugar crops, forage crops, medicinal crops, roots and tuber crops, vegetable or garden crops, etc. All these crops are indispensable part of our life due to their various usage.
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Naz, S. et al. (2019). Agronomic Crops: Types and Uses. In: Hasanuzzaman, M. (eds) Agronomic Crops. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9151-5_1
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