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• Cover-crops
  Cover-crops. Green temporary crops, grown for the purpose of improving the soil, either as protection or to be ...results so that the ground is covered and protected during the winter. The crops are grown for their effect upon the orchard, not for the direct value of th
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• Crop rotation
  ...n]] through the use of [[green manure]] in sequence with cereals and other crops. It is one component of [[polyculture]]. Crop rotation can also improve [[s
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• Ramtil oil
  | title=Minor oil crops | title=Oilseed Crops
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• Brunnichia
  ...in crops, for example ''B. ovata'' is a significant problem in [[soybean]] crops in the Mississippi Delta.
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• Cottonseed oil
  ...hemicals approved for use on cotton are not approved for use on food-based crops. Cotton field leftovers, or gin trash, is frequently fed to cattle. ...(as [[Crisco]]). In part because regulations apply differently to non-food crops, it has also been suggested that cottonseed oil may be highly contaminated
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• Heirloom
  .... Plant [[breeder]]s use the old varieties to breed resistance into modern crops that are constantly being attacked by rapidly evolving [[diseases]] and [[p
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• Vernonia oil
  | title=Alternative Field Crops Manual | journal=Perspectives on new crops and new uses
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• Pulse (legume)
  ...Organization]] of the United Nations (FAO) as annual [[legume|leguminous]] crops yielding from one to twelve [[grain]]s or [[seed]]s of variable size, shape ...refore excludes green beans and green peas, which are considered vegetable crops.
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• Solanum ptycanthum
  ...nd most [[agriculture|crops]]. It is most likely to be found growing near crops of related species such as [[tomato]]es and [[potato]]es. It can grow on s
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• Croppage
  The whole subject of the producing of crops.
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• Companion planting
  ...ompanion planting''' in gardening and agriculture is planting of different crops in close physical proximity. It is a form of [[polyculture]]. In the third world, tropical crops are used instead of temperate ones and provide NGO's, and other organizatio
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• Vegetable growing
  ...ds, increasing efficiency and output; however, the diversity of vegetables crops require a number of techniques to be used to optimize the growth of each ty ==Common vegetable crops==
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• Canary grass
  *[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/cangrass.html Alternative Field Crops Manual] [[Category:Underutilized crops]]
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• Sunflower seed
  ...ack oil sunflower seeds. The crops may be referred to as oilseed sunflower crops. These seeds are usually pressed into sunflower oil. Additionally, these se ...Due to their lower oil content, the crops are called non-oilseed sunflower crops. Striped sunflower seeds are primarily used for food; as a result, they may
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• Quinoa oil
  ...http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/V2-328.html|journal=New Crops Proceedings|volume=2|date=1983|pages=328-336|author=Michael J. Koziol}}</re
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• Kañiwa
  [[Category:Underutilized crops|Kaniwa]]
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• Fonio
  ...te book | author=National Academy of Sciences | year=1996 | title=The lost crops of Africa. 1. Grains | publisher=National Academies Press | id=ISBN 0-309-0 ...tle=Potential role of biotechnology tools for genetic improvement of “lost crops of Africa”: the case of fonio (''Digitaria exilis'' and ''Digitaria iburu
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• Saturation pollination
  ...lination]] technique for [[agriculture|agricultural]] [[Crop (agriculture)|crops]] in areas dominated by non-crop plant species that are preferred by pollin ...red for many crops due to decline of wild pollinators and [[monoculture]]d crops.
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• Legumes
  ...species are of unusual agricultural importance, both for forage, as cover-crops and green manure, and also for furnishing food for man. Among these may be Most of the native species of legumes, and all those cultivated as farm crops, belong to the Fabaceae or pea family. In these species the flower is of th
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• Perilla oil
  ...d genetic resources]. p. 322-328. In: J. Janick and J.E. Simon (eds.), New crops. Wiley, New York.
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