The Brassicaceae family includes 338 genera and 3700 species, which serve as sources of vegetable, fodder, condiments and oil, with wide range of morphologies, such as Chinese cabbage, mustard, cabbage, broccoli, oilseed rape, and other leafy vegetables.
Namely: Wheat, barley, paddy, maize, other grains, other vegetables, fodder, industrial crops, oil crops, tubercles, livestock, crude oil, other mining, oil refining, food processing, other manufacturing, construction, and electricity.
Other crops include barley, corn, cotton, sugar beets, tea, hemp, tobacco, fruits, potatoes, legumes (beans and lentils), vegetables, fodder plants (alfalfa and clover), almonds, walnuts and spices including cumin and sumac.
The forest was highly valued in every area for the collection of edible vegetables, fodder for livestock and for cultural reasons (such as religion, recreation or place attachment).
Brassicas provide vegetable oil, fresh and preserved vegetables, fodder and condiments, as well as being important sources of dietary fibre, vitamin C and nutritionally beneficial factors including anti-cancer compounds [ 1].
In addition to providing vegetable oil, vegetables, fodder and condiment, Brassicas are important sources for dietary fiber, vitamin C and other nutritionally beneficial factors such as anticancer compounds [ 2].
B.rapa is a diploid species which includes vegetable-, fodder-and oil crops.
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea), vegetable and fodder plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), the various agricultural forms of which have been developed by long cultivation from the wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea).
The leafy vegetables include both heading types (Chinese cabbage) and non-heading types (among others Pakchoi, mizuna, mibuna, komatsuna and broccoletti, consumed for its inflorescenses), the turnips include vegetable and fodder turnips, and the oil crops include both annual and biannual crops.
Species within the genus Brassica have been domesticated into a remarkably wide range of vegetable, oilseed, fodder and condiment crops [ 36], including turnips, Chinese cabbage, pak choi, brocolleto, sarson and turnip rape of B. rapa (A genome, n=10) and cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprout of B. oleracea (C genome, n=9).
Singh grows a traditional variety of cotton, along with guar, vegetables and fodder for his livestock.
