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crop

Plant cultivated for food, animal feed, fiber, or other uses

EntityQ235352

Also known as agricultural crop · agricultural crops · crops · crops, agricultural

Subclass of: renewable resource
, useful plant

Overview

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A crop is a plant or plant product harvested for human use. Crops are cultivated at scale to produce food, fiber, fuel, and other products. Crops have been central to human civilization since the first agricultural revolution, a key stage in the broader history of agriculture, when early societies domesticated plants for food and trade. Today, a small number of staple crops such as rice, wheat, maize, and sugarcane account for the majority of global production. Because of their economic importance, crops are studied within several scientific disciplines, including agronomy, agricultural science, horticulture, and forestry.

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63 statements · 27% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: tillage
Union of: list of values as qualifiers list item: food crop, Non-food crop

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54 identifiers linking crop across the web's reference databases

Data quality

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27%

externally sourced

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AIDB. (2026). crop (Q235352). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/crop-Q235352