Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Plantation crops
The correct answer is Plantation crops. - Plantation crops
- The term plantation crops refer to those crops which are cultivated on an extensive scale in a contiguous area owned and managed by an individual or a company.
- The crops include tea, coffee, rubber, cocoa, coconut, areca nut, oil palm, palmyra, and cashew.
- These are high-value commercial crops of greater economic importance and play a vital role in improving the Indian economy, especially in view of their export potential, employment generation and poverty alleviation, particularly in the rural sector.
- Tea, Coffee and rubber are dealt with by the Ministry of Commerce, while Coconut, cashew nut, cocoa, areca nut, oil palm yrah come under the Ministry of Agriculture.
- Horticulture crops
- Horticultural crops include fruits, vegetables, medicinal, aromatic, and ornamental plants.
- These crops are important dietary nutritional components and sources of medicines and aroma along with significant esthetic values for human beings.
- Adoption of horticulture is also becoming essential to meet the demands of fruits, vegetables, and other horticultural products for the fast-growing population of the world.
- Cash crops
- Cash crops are agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make a profit, as distinguished from subsistence crops planted for the purpose of self-supple of the farmer.
- Cash crops are grown on a large scale and sometimes compete with the land use and resource requirements of the local community.
- Food crops
- The crops that are grown to feed the human population are known as food crops.
- There are a number of food crops grown in the country.
- Cassava, maize, plantains, potatoes, rice, sorghum, soybeans, sweet potatoes, wheat, and yams are some of the leading food crops around the world.
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