staple crops
Essential farmed foods
Staple crops are the plants that form the foundation of a population's diet—the reliable caloric base people depend on.
Rice, wheat, corn, and potatoes are staples in different regions.
The term emphasizes both dietary importance and agricultural consistency: Drought threatened the region's staple crops.
A society's staples shape its cuisine, economy, and food security.
- maizeCob-bearing cereal crop
- cowpeasWarm-climate legume crop
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- milletSmall-seeded food crop
- barleyGrain for malt
oats · mung beans · rice · daily bread · quinoa · grain silo · threshing floor · teff · chickpeas · potato · taro · rye · sago palm · soybeans · peanuts · sorghum · amaranth · spelt
- cropsmaize, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes
- crop diversitycultivars, landraces, heirloom varieties, ancient grains, heirloom seeds
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- Grain Historyancient grains, grain harvesting
- farmworker healthfarmworkers, field workers, seasonal workers, heat stress, labor camps
- swidden farmingslash and burn, slash-and-burn, shifting cultivation, swidden, ray
staple cropsdelicacies
Choice, refined foods
specialty foods · garnishes · condiments · superfoods · caviar
staple cropsornamental plants
Vegetation grown for aesthetics
edible flowers · cut flowers · truffles · saffron · cash crops
staple cropsherbs
Plants for seasoning
spices · seasonings · flavor enhancers · aromatic plants · culinary herbs