Question

Match the following food crops with their types.

• A. Cereal Crop
• B. Pulses
• C. Oilseed Crop
• D. Tuber crop

Answer 1

The various types of food crops are:
(i) Cereal crops
(ii) Pulses
(iii) Root and tuber crops
(iv) Oilseed crops

Cereal crops constitute a major portion of our diet. Some examples of cereal crops are rice, wheat, barley.
Potato, carrot, beetroot are tuber and root crops. The edible part of a root and tuber crop is generally under the ground. Pulses are food crops which impart strength to our body. Chickpea is a type of pulse.
Cooking oil can made from mustard, which is an oilseed crop.