Here are my top three crops that are best to sow right now.
In Asia, planting two or three crops in a single year is becoming more common.
The oldest, most widespread and until recently biggest of the three crops is wheat (see chart).
The northeastern lowlands can sustain three crops of rice per year.
Before, farmers had compensated for the region's limited annual rainfall by planting only three crops every two years.
Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans scratch a living from just three crops, maize, coffee and sugar.
The balmy weather yields three crops a year instead of one, allowing the companies to bring a new strain to market in a third of the time.
Two crops of rice a year can be grown on most cultivated land, and in the Pearl River Delta three crops are not unusual.
Now armed with better knowledge, farmers are aiming at three crops a year, instead of the precarious single one to which they were accustomed.
The results occasionally were notable, and in a few parts of the country farmers were able to grow two or, more rarely, three crops of rice per year.
It contended in a report that sugar, soybeans and palm oil were the three crops producing the fiercest competition for land by large, often foreign, investors.
