Who was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain and crops?
Agriculture classification of crops plant products to man Ceres - the Roman Goddess of harvest Wheat and barley were generally the offerings - called Cerealia munera Subsequently the grains used for food, especially for making bread were called Cerealia or cereals Applicable to the grains obtained from the members of the family Poaceae. E.g. Rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, ragi, barely, pearl millet, fox-tail millet, rye, oats, etc. Millets - number of small grained cereals which are of minor importance as food. Pseudo-cereals - plants other than those of Poaceae E.g. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum spp - Chenopodiaceae), Grain amaranths (Amaranthus spp.-Amaranthaceae), Quina (Chenopodium quinoa - Chenopodiaceae
Agriculture classification of crops Agriculture classification of crops There are many systems of classification of crops for example commercial, taxonomical and agricultural among the agriculture classification of corrupt crops is most widely accepted because it is commonly it covers the taxonomical and commercial and other aspects. Taxonomical classification deals with the taxonomical aspects of classifying aspects of crops -- that is their morphology and economical parts and agro-botanical characters. Advantage: understanding of the morphological characters of any particular family Disadvantage: crops with different economic uses and morphological and other agro-botanical peculiarities when brought under one family do not generally bring out the economic importance