Sectors of Farming
Crop Farming
Cereals
Livestock breeding
Types of crop farming
Annual Crops
They are crops which grow and mature within one year e.g. melon, maize, rice, wheat, groundnut, cowpea, cotton etc.
Biennial Crops
Cattle breeding
They are crops which grow and mature within two years e.g. cassava, pepper, ginger etc.
Pig/hog/ rearing
Perennial Crops
Number of cattle:
Most in India and Brazil
They are those crops that grow and mature in more than two years.
grain cereals
wheat
China
Fifth on the scale
soy beans
Industrial crops
Fibre - yield
Linen Cotton Jute
Oil-yield
sunflower
olives
Sugar-yield
Sugar cane
Sugar beet
Stimulation
crops
Coffee
Tea
Cocoa