This video will take you through a detailed exploration of various crop classification systems and their importance.
1. Why Classify Crops?
- Creating order and facilitating logical naming.
2. Modern Bases for Classification
- Phylogeny-- which relies on evolutionary relationships.
4. Botanical System of Classification
- Seven categories in botanical classification: Kingdom, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
5. Detailed Example: Botanical Classification of Cucumbers
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Division: Magnoliophyta (Angiosperms)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
- Order: Cucurbitales
- Family: Cucurbitaceae
- Genus: Cucumis
- Species: Sativus (common cucumber)
6. Agronomic Classification of Crops
- **Cereals**: Grasses cultivated for edible grains like wheat, rice, and corn.
- **Legumes**: Plants with seed pods that split when ripe, used for food and forage, such as beans and peas.
- **Root Crops**: Plants grown for edible roots or modified stems like carrots and potatoes.
- **Fiber Crops**: Plants grown for fibers used in textiles, such as cotton and coconut coir.
- **Industrial Crops**: Crops used in industrial processes, including rubber and tobacco.
- **Forage and Pasture**: Plants grown for animal feed, like Napier Grass and ipil-ipil.
- **Oil Crops**: Plants grown for oil extraction, such as coconut oil and sunflower oil.
7. Horticultural Classification of Crops
- **Vegetables**: Includes leafy, cole, root, bulb, legume, solanaceous, and cucurbit vegetables.
- **Fruit**: Tree fruits, nuts, and small fruits like papaya and rambutan.
- **Plantation Crops**: Oil, fiber, beverage, spices, and medicinal plants.
- **Ornamental Plants**: Cut flowers, pot plants, foliage, and landscape plants.
8. Special Purpose Classification of Crops
- **Green Manure Legumes**: Grown to improve soil fertility.
- **Silage**: Crops grown to be cut and preserved for livestock feed.
- **Soilage**: Crops grown to be fed fresh to livestock.
- **Catch/Emergency Crops**: Used when regular crops fail or planting is delayed.
- **Cover Crops**: Seeded on land to protect against erosion and nutrient loss.
- **Companion Crops**: Used to nurse new seedlings of the main crop.
- **Trap Crops**: Grown to attract pests away from the main crop.
9. Other Methods of Classification
- **Based on Growth Habit**: Vine, herb, shrub, or tree.
- **Based on Habitat**: Terrestrial, aquatic, or epiphyte.
- **Based on Lifespan**: Annual or perennial.
- **Based on Mode of Reproduction**: Sexual or asexual.
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