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Introduction to Agriculture         Notes prepared by: Aqleem Abbas




               Rabi  cereals              Grain legumes
               wheat          Triticum    Chicken  Cicer          Cow pea   Vigna         linsee        Linium
                              aestivum L.  pea     arietinum                 ungulita.                  usitatissiumum
               Barley         Hordeum     lentil   Lens culinaris  Oil seed crops         safflower     Carthamus
                              vulgare L.                                                                tinctoria
               Kharif cereals             Grass    Lathyrus       Soy bean   Gycine max  Rap see        Brassica
                                          pea      sativus                                (sarsoo)      campesteris
               Rice           Oryza       pea      Pisum          sunflower  Helianthus   jojoba        Simmondisa
                              sativa L             sativum                   annus
               Maize          Zeemays     Mung     Vigna radiate   Ground    Arachis
                                          bean                    nut        hypogeal
               sorghum        Sorghum     Black    Vigna mungo    seesam     Sesame
                              bicolor     gram                               indicum
               millet         Pennisetum  Kidney   Phaselolus     caster     Ricinus
                              typhoods    bean     vulgaris                  comonusi




                       Fodder crops
                       barseem             Trifolium alex       cowpea            Vigna ungculita
                       Alfalfa /lucerna    Medicago sativa
                       oat                 Avena sativa
                       Persian clover or   Trifolium
                       shaftal             vesupinatum
                       Sorghum             Sorghum bicolor
                       Millet /bajra       Pennisetum
                                           americanum
                       Cluster bean        Cyamopsis
                       /guar               tetragonolobus
               Legume crops (febacea /leguminosa)

               They have pinnate leaves. They are those crops which have compound leaves or ovate leaves.  They are
               divided into forages and pulses

               Pulses


               Pulses are annual leguminous crops yielding one to twelve grains. Play an important role in crop rotation
               due to their ability to fix nitrogen. India is world largest produce and larger importer of pulses. Pulses
               have twenty to twenty five percent protein by weight, which is double protein content than wheat and
               three times than rice so pulses are called poor man’s nut.

               Forages

               Forage is plant material mainly plant leaves and stems eaten by grazing livestock. Historically term forage
               has meant nay plant eaten by animals directly as Pasteur, crop residue or immature cereal crops. These
               plants have trifoliate leaves for example clover
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