Crops suitable for use per region

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Indiginous staple, secundary and tertiary crops map

Types of crops indicated

Primary crops: divided in primary crops carbohydrates (PC_C_) and primary crops proteïn (PC_C_). Both abbreviations are followed by a number to indicate the region.
Secundary crops: abbreviation SC_ followed by a number to indicate the region. These are generally herbs, spices or crops for making beverages
Supplementary (or tertiairy) crops: TC_ followed by a number to indicate the region. These crops are generally sweet crops or sweeteners

Regions

Region 1: East-Asia
Region 2: Oceania
Region 3: Central-Asia
Region 4: West-Asia & South-Europe
Region 5: North-Africa & South-Africa
Region 6: Central-Africa
Region 7: North-Europe, North-Asia & North-America
Region 8: Central-America
Region 9: South-America (north)
Region 10: South-America (central)
Region 11: South-America (south)

Names of the crops

PC_C_1: rice, foxtail millet [1][2]
PC_P_1: soybean [3]
SC_1: tea bush [4]
TC_1: monk fruit [5][6]
PC_C_2: yam[7], swamp taro [8]
PC_P_2:
SC_2:
TC_2: sugarcane [9], gomuti [10], Borassus flabelliformis [11], Nypa fruticans [12]
TC_2-1: coconut [13]
PC_C_3: taro [14]
PC_P_3:
SC_3: black pepper [15]
TC_3: Indian date palm (for palm sugar production)[16], Caryota urens [17]
PC_C_4: wheat, rye [18][19]
PC_P_4: oat [20][21], wild pea [22], chickpea[23]
SC_4:
TC_4: Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) [24][25]
PC_C_5: pearl millet, barley [26][27]
PC_P_5:
SC_5:
TC_5:
PC_C_6: Sorghum bicolor, teff [28][29]
PC_P_6:
SC_6: coffee plant (coffea arabica, coffea robusta)[30]
TC_6:
PC_C_7: buckwheat [31][32]
PC_P_7: Amaranthus hypochondriacus [33][34][35]
SC_7:
TC_7: birch (Betula papyrifera var. humilis and Betula neoalaskana)[36], sugar maple[37]
TC_7-2: honey (from Apis mellifera mellifera)[38][39][40], sweet cicely root[41],licorice [42]
PC_C_8: maize [43]
PC_P_8: Amaranthus cruentus [44][45][46][47]
SC_8:
TC_8: sugar pine [48], Agave salmiana, Agave tequilana [49]
PC_C_9: potato [50]
PC_P_9: quinoa [51][52][53], Amaranthus caudatus [54][55][56][57], lima bean [58], peanut
SC_9: Capsicum annuum [59]
TC_9: Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni and other species [60][61], yacón syrup [62]
PC_C_10: cassava [63]
PC_P_10:
SC_10:
TC_10:
PC_C_11: sweet potato [64][65]
PC_P_11:
SC_11: yerba maté [66]
TC_11:

See also

References

Template:Reflist

Note

Sugar beet wasn't included as it is a selected species from Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima

Further information

See list of crops at this wikiversity webpage

  1. ↑ Rice's origin= China, 3 locations along Yangtsekiang
  2. ↑ Foxtail millet origin=China (though somewhat more north than indicated)
  3. ↑ Soybean's origin=Korea
  4. ↑ Tea bush (var. sinensis) native to western Yunnan, while C. sinensis var. assamica is native to the warmer parts of Assam (India)
  5. ↑ Monk fruit native to china, near taiwan
  6. ↑ Luo han guo
  7. ↑ Yam's origin=Indonesia
  8. ↑ Swamp taro origin=melanesia
  9. ↑ Sugarcane encompassing 37 species, indigenous to tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. Different species likely originated in different locations, with S. barberi originating in India and S. edule and S. officinarum coming from New Guinea
  10. ↑ Gomuti palm native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the east.
  11. ↑ Borassus flabelliformis native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea
  12. ↑ Nypa fruticans native within the Indomalaya ecozone - in southern Asia, Indochina, the Malesian region, and northern Australia-
  13. ↑ Cocunut's origin: somewhere between northwest-South america and Melanesia
  14. ↑ Taro origin=between India & Bangladesh
  15. ↑ Black pepper native to Western Ghats of Kerala State, India
  16. ↑ Indian date palm native to southern Pakistan, most of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
  17. ↑ Caryota urens native to Sri Lanka, Singapore, Myanmar, and India
  18. ↑ Wheat origin=Fertile Crescent, Near East
  19. ↑ Rye origin=Fertile Crescent, Near East
  20. ↑ Oat origin=Fertile Crescent, Near East
  21. ↑ Oat having high comparitive protein content, thus usable as PC_P crop
  22. ↑ Pisum sativum elatius native to Bulgaria - Mediterranean basin, Near East. Earliest archaeological finds of peas come from Neolithic Syria, Turkey and Jordan.
  23. ↑ Chickpea native to the area around Persia and the Caucasus Mountains
  24. ↑ Date palm native to Persian Gulf, near Syria
  25. ↑ Note that other data palms too exist, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(plant) yet not all are used for human consumption
  26. ↑ Pearl millet origin=West Africa, near the Sahel strip
  27. ↑ Barley origin=Egypt
  28. ↑ Origin sorghum bicolor= between Ehiopia & Sudan (also named Sudanese grass)
  29. ↑ Teff origin=Ethiopia
  30. ↑ Coffee native to Ethiopia
  31. ↑ Buckwheat origin=northern hemisphere
  32. ↑ http://www.cliffordawright.com/caw/food/entries/display.php/topic_id/9/id/122/ Buckwheat origin=between Lac Baikal & Manchuria]
  33. ↑ Compararing protein crops
  34. ↑ Amaranth high in nutrients, useful as PC_P crop
  35. ↑ Amaranthus hypochondricus origin=North America
  36. ↑ Betula papyrifera var. humilis and Betula neoalaskana native to Alaska, northern Canada
  37. ↑ Sugar maple (used to make maple syrup) native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas.
  38. ↑ Apis florea and Apis andreniformis native to South and South East Asia (including the Philippines)
  39. ↑ Apis mellifera mellifera native to East-Europe
  40. ↑ Apis mellifera having 14 subspecies, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeybee and http://www.imkerpedia.nl/wiki/index.php/Ondersoorten_van_de_Apis_mellifera
  41. ↑ Sweet cicely native to Europe
  42. ↑ Licorice native to southeastern Europe, near Romania/Bulgaria
  43. ↑ Maize's origin=Mexico
  44. ↑ Compararing protein crops
  45. ↑ Amaranth high in nutrients, useful as PC_P crop
  46. ↑ Amaranthus cruentus origin=Central America
  47. ↑ Amaranthus cruentus origin=Central America
  48. ↑ Sugar pine native to the mountains of the Pacific coast of North America, from Oregon through California to Baja California
  49. ↑ Agave salmiana and Agave tequilana native to central Mexico
  50. ↑ Potato origin=Peru
  51. ↑ Quinoa indiginous to Peru, protein content=14g/100g serving
  52. ↑ Quinoa origin=around Lake Titicaca
  53. ↑ Quinoa having high comparitive protein content, hence useful as PC_P_ crop
  54. ↑ Compararing protein crops
  55. ↑ Amaranth high in nutrients, useful as PC_P crop
  56. ↑ Amaranthus caudatus origin=Peru
  57. ↑ Amaranthus causates origin=south America
  58. ↑ Lima bean origin=Andes
  59. ↑ Capsicum species having a common ancestor which originated somewhere in the northwest Brazil - Colombia area
  60. ↑ Stevia encompassing 240 species, native to subtropical and tropical regions from western North America to South America
  61. ↑ Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni is native to Paraguay
  62. ↑ Yacón native to lower Andes/Peru
  63. ↑ Cassava origin= west-central Brazil
  64. ↑ Sweet potato origin=South America
  65. ↑ Cassava's origin
  66. ↑ Yerba maté native to subtropical South America in northeastern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay
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