Food crops

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The term food crops comes from agricultural economics and describes agriculturally grown products that are primarily used for self-sufficiency ( subsistence farming ) and are only sold to a small extent on the market. These include important products from local food production, such as millet , corn , potatoes , yams and cassava .

The opposite is the cash crops that are mainly grown for sale in the market.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geography / Geography: Cash crops and food crops , on tutoria.de. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ food crop , in the Lexicon of Geography , on Spektrum.de. Retrieved May 17, 2017.