Field crops refer to agronomic crops that are cultivated in a large area in the field, that is, crops such as grain, cotton, oil, hemp, silk, tea, sugar, tobacco and fodder, commonly known as crops. Cultivation and management of crops in this narrow sense is crop cultivation.

Classification of field crops

Food crops: wheat, rice, corn

Oil crops: castor, soybean

Bio-energy crops: divided into non-food energy sources such as tung oil trees and miscanthus and food energy sources such as corn, sugar cane and rapeseed

Characteristics of field crops

1. It must be cultivated in the open field, and the task crops grown in the greenhouse are not field crops

2. The crops must be directly supplied with grain, oil and clothing raw materials. Tobacco, Chinese herbal medicine, etc. are not field crops

In our country, the planting area of large fields is large. Wheat is mainly planted in the north, rice is mainly planted in the south, and corn is planted in large areas in the north and south.