Uses of plants in agriculture

1. Uses of plants in agriculture

2. • 1. Food: Plants are the main source of our food. We use different
parts of different plants as food.
• (i) We eat leaves of some plants like spinach, radish

3. • Roots of radish, carrot, cucumbe

4. • We mostly eat cereals or food grains. The cereals are
seeds of some plants belonging to the grass family. We
prepare many types of food from the grains of rice,

5. • Seeds of some plants are used as pulses like gram,
yellow-gram, pea, green-gram, lentil

6. • Fruits of some plants are used as food. These fruits are
mango, grape, apple, orange, pine-apple, etc. These
fruits are eaten raw, as they

7. • Medicines: Many medicines are made from plants and these plants
are called medicinal plants. Neem, tulsi, brahmi, surpagamdha,
banafsa, bail, etc. are known as medicinal plants.

8. • Fibers: There are some fibrinous plants to give us fiber for making
ropes, gunny-bags, etc. Hemp, jute, etc. are such plants.
• Fibrinous Plant gives us Fiber

9. References
• Uses of Plants | Plants as Food | Plants as Medicines, Paper, Rubber,
Perfumes (first-learn.com)