作物: 广义指栽培的植物.狭义的是指在大田里栽培面积较大的栽培作物,常称农作物,如粮、棉、油、麻、糖、烟、果、菜、花、饲料作物和药用作物等法语口译。

2 作物的分类

2.1 粮食作物(称食用作物)

a)      谷类作物(称禾谷类作物)绝大部分属禾本科, 主要作物有稻、小麦、大麦、燕麦、思麦、玉米、谷子、高粱、黍、荠麦等。

b)      豆类作物(称豆菽类作物)属豆科, 常见作物有大豆、碗豆、绿豆、赤豆、蚕豆、菜豆、小扁豆等。

c)      薯芋类作物: 植物学上科属不一, 常见的有甘薯、马铃薯、木薯、豆薯、山药芋、魔芋等。

2.2 经济作物(或称工业原料作物)

a)      纤维作物。其中有种子纤维, 如棉花; 韧皮纤维, 如大麻、亚麻、洋麻、黄麻等; 叶纤维, 如龙舌兰麻、蕉麻等英语翻译。

Crop: generalized meaning is cultivated plants, narrow sense meaning is the

cultivated plants of which cultivate areas in farm is relatively bigger, generally called

farm crop, such as grain, cotton, oil, flax, sugar, cigarette, fruit, vegetable, flower,

feed crop and medicine crop etc.

2  Classification of crops

2.1 Foodstuff crops (called edible crops)

Grain crops, majorly belong to Gramineae, Major crops are rice, wheat, barley, oat,

corn, millet, grain sorghum and proso millet etc.

d)       Pulse crops belong to pulse; common crops are soy bean, pea, green gram, red bean, broad bean, kidney bean and lentil etc.

e)        Yam crops: species and families are different in botany, common crops are

sweet potato, potato, cassava, Pachyrrhizus erosus, yam taro and Amorphophallus

konjacy etc.

2.2  Commercial crops (or called industrial crops)

b)        Fiber crops. In which there is seed fiber, such as cotton; bast fiber, such as hemp,

flax, ambary and jute etc.; leaf fiber, such as maguey hemp and manila hemp etc.