This document classifies and describes different types of field crops. It discusses cereals like wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice, corn, and maize. It provides details on each cereal, noting that wheat is a tall annual grass used for human consumption, barley belongs to the Hordeum genus and is used for food and brewing, rye has slender seed spikes and is used for bread, whiskey, and livestock feed. It describes oats and its uses for hay, silage, and bedding. It notes rice is a primary food for half the world and is highly nutritious. Finally, it states corn is one of the most important cereals, with kernels for food and

1. DIFFERENT
CLASSIFICATIONS
OF FIELD CROPS

2. CEREALS
Wheat
Barley
Rye
Oats
Rice
Corn
Maize

3. WHEAT
 common name for cereal grasses of a
genus of the grass family.
 Wheat is a tall, annual plant attaining an
average height of 1.2 m (4 ft). The leaves,
which resemble those of other grasses,
appear early and are followed by slender
stalks terminating in spikes, or so-called
ears, of grain.

4. WHEAT

5. BARLEY
 Barley belongs to the genus Hordeum, of
the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae).
Two-rowed barley is classified as Hordeum
distichon, six-rowed barley as Hordeum
vulgare, and irregular barley as Hordeum
irregulare.
 barley is used for human consumption, as a
feed for livestock, and for brewing malt
beverages such as beer.

6. BARLEY

7. RYE
 The rye plant is characterized by slender
seed spikes that consist of two or more
flowered spikelets.
 Rye is cultivated as a bread grain, livestock
feed, and an ingredient used in the
distillation of whiskey and gin.

8. RYE

9. OATS
the plant portion may be used for hay,
as silage, and as bedding material for
livestock. Furfural, a chemical derived
from the covering of the oat grain, is
used as a solvent in various types of
industrial refining processes.

10. OATS

11. RICE
Rice is the primary food for half the
people in the world. In many regions it
is eaten with every meal and provides
more calories than any other single
food.
Rice is a nutritious food, providing
about 90 percent of calories from
carbohydrates and as much as 13
percent of calories from protein.

12. RICE

13. CORN OR MAIZE
 corn is one of the most important cereal
grains grown worldwide, having been
hybridized into numerous varieties for food
and non-food purposes.
 The kernels are used for human and
livestock consumption, while the corn cob
and its extracts are used for a variety of
industrial purposes such as the making of
nylon fibers and the production of synthetic
rubber.

14. CORN OR MAIZE

15. PULSES