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NAVEEN.M
VIII-D
GEOGRAPHY PROJECT

2.  Major crops grown in India are rice, wheat,
millets, pulses, tea, coffee, sugarcane
RICE WHEAT MILLETS PULSES TEA COFFEE SUGARCANE

3.  RICE
 As a cereal grain, domesticated rice is the most widely
consumed staple food for over half of the
world's human population,[Liu 1] especially
in Asia and Africa. It is the agricultural commodity with
the third-highest worldwide production,
after sugarcane and maize.[1] Since sizable portions of
sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes
other than human consumption, rice is the most
important food crop with regard to human nutrition and
caloric intake, providing more than one-fifth of
the calories consumed worldwide by humans.[2] There
are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend
to vary regionally.

4.  WHEAT
Wheat is grown on more land area than any other food
crop (220.4 million hectares or 545 million acres,
2014).[5] World trade in wheat is greater than for all other
crops combined.[6]
In 2020, world production of wheat was
761 million tonnes (839 million short tons; 1.7 trillion
pounds), making it the second most-
produced cereal after maize.[7] Since 1960, world
production of wheat and other grain crops has tripled and
is expected to grow further through the middle of the 21st
century.[8] Global demand for wheat is increasing due to
the unique viscoelastic and adhesive properties
of gluten proteins, which facilitate the production of
processed foods, whose consumption is increasing as a
result of the worldwide industrialization process and
the westernization of the diet.[9][10]

5.  MILLETS
Millets (/ˈmɪlɪts/)[1] are a highly varied group of small-
seeded grasses, widely grown around the world
as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Most
species generally referred to as millets belong to the
tribe Paniceae, but some millets also belong to various
other taxa.
Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia
and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger),
with 97% of millet production in developing
countries.[2] This crop is favored due to its productivity and
short growing season under dry, high-temperature
conditions.

6.  PULSES
A legume (/ˈlɛɡjuːm, ləˈɡjuːm/) is a plant in the
family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or
the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as
a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse.
Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for
human consumption,
for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-
enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes
include beans, soybeans, peas, chickpeas, pea
nuts, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, tamarind,
alfalfa, and clover. Legumes produce a
botanically unique type of fruit – a simple dry
fruit that develops from a simple carpel and
usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two
sides.

7.  TEA
Camellia sinensis is a species of evergreen shrub or
small tree in the flowering plant family Theaceae. Its
leaves and leaf buds are used to produce the popular
beverage, tea. Common names include tea plant, tea
shrub, and tea tree (not to be confused with Melaleuca
alternifolia, the source of tea tree oil, or the
genus Leptospermum commonly called tea tree).
White tea, yellow tea, green tea, oolong, dark tea (which
includes pu-erh tea) and black tea are all harvested from
one of two major varieties grown today, C.
sinensis var. sinensis and C. s. var. assamica,[3] but
are processed differently to attain varying levels
of oxidation with black tea being the most oxidized and
green being the least.[4] Kukicha (twig tea) is also
harvested from C. sinensis, but uses twigs and stems
rather than leaves.

8.  COFFEE
Coffea is a genus of flowering plants in
the family Rubiaceae. Coffea species are shrubs or
small trees native to tropical and southern Africa and
tropical Asia. The seeds of some species, called coffee
beans, are used to flavor various beverages and products.
The fruits, like the seeds, contain a large amount
of caffeine, and have a distinct sweet taste and are often
juiced. The plant ranks as one of the world's most
valuable and widely traded commodity crops and is an
important export product of several countries, including
those in Central and South America, the Caribbean and
Africa.

9.  SUGAR CANE
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid)
tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum,
tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed,
fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose,[1] which
accumulates in the stalk internodes. Sugarcanes belong
to the grass family, Poaceae, an economically
important flowering plant family that includes maize,
wheat, rice, and sorghum, and many forage crops. It is
native to the warm temperate and tropical regions of India,
Southeast Asia, and New Guinea. The plant is also grown
for biofuel production, especially in Brazil, as the canes
can be used directly to produce ethyl alcohol (ethanol).