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Crop Production
AHS2130
Francis K. Ombwara
Communication
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fombwara@agr.jkuat.ac.ke
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• What is a crop?
• What is a weed?
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Economic considerations
Thomas Malthus (1798); The
Principles of Population.
Postulated exponential population
growth and arithmetic food supply
growth, i.e. the rate of growth of
the world’s population will outstrip
the capacity of land to provide the
food necessary to subsistence and
that only recurring famine,
pestilence, or wars keep down the
number of inhabitants….
A Malthusian catastrophe
Social-Political Context
1. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
aka Global Goals; a collection of 17 interlinked
global goals designed to be a "blueprint to
achieve a better and more sustainable future
for all“.
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2. Vision 2030
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4. ASTGS is anchored in
three outcomes:
increasing small-scale
farmer incomes,
increasing agricultural
output and
value-addition, and
boosting household food
resilience.
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What is?
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Classification
• Classify?
• What is?
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Why Classify
• Grouping of crops will indicate that
these crops may have similar uses,
adaptation, growth habits and
methods of culture.
• Classifications of crops in
agriculture is varied from place to
place and from one country to
another
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Agronomic/economic classification
1. Beverage Crops
Agronomic/economic classification
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Agronomic/economic classification
3. Fiber Crops
Fiber crops are grown for their
fiber e.g. cotton, jute, hemp and
sisal.
Agronomic/economic classification
4. Forage crops
These are herbaceous in nature,
fresh or preserved that are
utilized as feeds for animals e.g.
grasses, legumes, crucifers and
other cultivated crops.
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5. Legumes
These include pea nuts, field
beans, cowpeas, soybeans, lima
beans, mug beans, chickpeas,
pigeon peas, broad beans and
lentils. They are grown for their
edible seeds.
Agronomic/economic classification
6. Oil crops
The oil crops include soyabean,
peanuts (groundnuts), sunflower,
safflower, sesame, castor bean,
coconut, mustard, cotton seed,
corn and grain sorghum.
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Agronomic/economic classification
7. Root and tuber crops
These include sugar beets, carrots,
sweet potatoes, yams, cassava,
potatoes and cocoyam.
Agronomic/economic classification
8. Rubber crops/latex crops
These are grown for the milky
sap, or latex which they
produce; such as the Rubber
tree.
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Agronomic/economic classification
9. Sugar crops
grown for their sweet juice from
which sucrose is extracted and
crystallized. They include
sugarcane and sugar beet.
Agronomic/economic classification
10. Vegetable crops
Includes potatoes, tomatoes,
kales, cabbages, onions
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Assignment
1. Create a table listing each of the different crops highlighted in
this presentation, itemizing them by common name, family
name , genus and species.
2. List the ten (10) most important crops to the Kenyan
economy, stating the basis or criteria by which you have
ranked them.
To be continued….
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