[permalink] [id link]
Wheat is widely cultivated as a cash crop because it produces a good yield per unit area, grows well in a temperate climate even with a moderately short growing season, and yields a versatile, high-quality flour that is widely used in baking.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Wheat and is
Wheat, corn and rice are used to produce Chinese liquor which is clear and aromatic, containing approximately 60 % alcohol.
His most famous description of the city is as " Hog Butcher for the World / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat / Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler ,/ Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
Wheat and soy noodle products – similar to noodle products except that soy flour is added in a quantity not less than 12. 5 percent of the combined weight of the wheat and soy ingredients.
Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereal, pasta, noodles, couscous and for fermentation to make beer, other alcoholic beverages, or biofuel.
Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and its straw can be used as a construction material for roofing thatch.
Wheat is one of the first cereals known to have been domesticated, and wheat's ability to self-pollinate greatly facilitated the selection of many distinct domesticated varieties.
Wheat is a major ingredient in such foods as bread, porridge, crackers, biscuits, Muesli, pancakes, pies, pastries, cakes, cookies, muffins, rolls, doughnuts, gravy, boza ( a fermented beverage ), and breakfast cereals ( e. g., Wheatena, Cream of Wheat, Shredded Wheat, and Wheaties ).
Wheat starch is an important commercial product of wheat, but second in economic value to wheat gluten.
Wheat protein is easily digested by nearly 99 % of human population ( see gluten sensitivity for exception ).
Wheat is the primary food staple in North Africa and the Middle East, and is growing in popularity in Asia.
Wheat flour is one of the most important foods in European, North American, Middle Eastern, Indian and North African cultures, and is the defining ingredient in most of their styles of breads and pastries.
Wheat and widely
Wheat and barley are widely grown on the less infertile soils in the southeast of the region, but fertilizers, especially superphosphate are essential for success and yields only a quarter of those in most of Europe or North America-in drought years, they can be as little as one twentieth of European wheat yields.
Wheat and cultivated
Wheat was a key factor enabling the emergence of city-based societies at the start of civilization because it was one of the first crops that could be easily cultivated on a large scale, and had the additional advantage of yielding a harvest that provides long-term storage of food.
However, only about 120 cultivated species provide around 90 % of food requirements and 4 species ( Maize, Wheat, Rice and Potatoes ) provide about 60 % of human dietary energy for the world's population.
Wheat, barley, alfalfa, maize, sunflower, water-melon and vegetable, sugar-beet, potato, cotton, grape, pomegranate and other plants are cultivated in the district.
Wheat and cash
Wheat and crop
Wheat farmers blamed local grain elevator owners ( who purchased their crop ), railroads and eastern bankers for the low prices.
* Wheat import in 2007 – Bombay High Court issued notices to Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, questioning the decision to import defective red wheat and to submit details of procurement of the crop from different states and the exact process of importing it.
Wheat being main crop in whole of the district had covered 50 thousands hectars of area followed by paddy grown over an area of 36 thousand hectar and rest 38 thousand hectars were covered under maize, millets, oil seeds, pulses and vegetable crop during 1999-2000.
Wheat is grown there by digging with hoes, and it is watered with buckets ... Excellent cucumbers grow there, and there are a few small fig trees and some vines, as well as plantations of henna which produce a large crop ... are wells with sweet water.
Wheat, used for white bread, pastries, pasta and pizza, has been the principal cereal crop since the 18th century.
Wheat was the dominant crop and the tall grain elevator alongside the railway tracks became a crucial element of the Albertan grain trade after 1890.
Many farmers who want to seek the highest possible price oppose the monopoly of the board, while others believe that eliminating the board would ultimately have the effect of driving crop prices downward because of increased competition between individual farmers and by competition between marketing companies as was proven by the loss of the Australian Wheat Board in Australia in 2009-2010.
0.376 seconds.