According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global production of primary crops increased by 53 per cent to 9.4 billion tonnes between 2000 and 2019 due to a combination of factors such as irrigation, pesticides, fertilisers and, to a lesser extent, a larger cultivated area.
- Cereals made up a little less than 30 per cent of the total primary crops produced in 2019, sugar crops 24 per cent, vegetables and oil crops 12 per cent each and fruits, roots and tubers each nine per cent, the UN food security body said in its Statistical Yearbook 2021.
What are Primary crops?
- According to FAO, primary crops are those which come directly from the land and without having undergone any real processing, apart from cleaning. They maintain all the biological qualities they had when they were still on the plants.
- Primary crops are divided into temporary and permanent crops. Temporary crops are those which are both sown and harvested during the same agricultural year, sometimes more than once; permanent crops are sown or planted once and not be replanted after each annual harvest.
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