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Groundnut, sunflower, gingelly, etc., are ________.

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Commercial crops
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Food crops
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Oil seeds
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Plantation crops
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Solution

The correct option is C Oil seeds

Oilseeds are major crops. The major oilseed crops include groundnuts. soybean, coconut, oil palm, sesame, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower, olive seed, gingelly etc.

Whereas Crops giving comparatively better returns to farmers are known as commercial crops. Examples are cotton, sugarcane, jute, ramie etc. And Food crops include rice, wheat, jawar, bajra, small millets, cereals, grams, pulses, vegetables and fruits.

A plantation is a large-scale estate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, oilseeds, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.

Thus above descriptions say that correct answer of Groundnut, sunflower, gingelly, etc, are oil seeds. So, C is the correct option.


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