Oilseeds Field Crops Agriculture

Information from the FAO Agricultural Organization on the cultivation and uses of a number of edible, non-edible and essential oil crops.

• Vernonia - This potential oilseed crop, Vernonia galamensis, is native oilseeds to eastern Africa. Information on its uses, growth oilseeds habits, environment requirement, culture, yield potential and economics.
• Castorbeans - Factsheet on this crop grown for its oil, agriculture its history, uses, varieties and cultivation.
• Post-harvest Operations: Coconut - Provides information on pre-harvest operations, harvesting, dehusking, splitting, oilseeds copra processing field crops and drying.
• Growing Safflower in Nebraska - Information on this crop, its place in the oilseeds rotation, fertilizers, oilseeds varieties, harvesting, pest control and the oilseeds economics of production.
• Sesame - Factsheet on this crop, one of the oldest oilseeds cultivated plants, its history, uses, varieties and cultivation.
• Minor Oil Crops - Information from the FAO Agricultural Organization on the oilseeds cultivation and field crops uses of a number of edible, oilseeds non-edible and essential oil field crops crops.
• Crambe - Factsheet on this crop, Crambe abyssinica, its history, uses, varieties and cultivation.
• Flax - Factsheet on this crop, its history, its uses field crops as agriculture an oilseed and as fibre, its varieties field crops and cultivation.
• Meadowfoam - Factsheet on this crop, Limnanthes alba, its history, agriculture uses, varieties field crops and cultivation.
• Small-scale Oilseed Processing - Describes the basic processes involved in oilseed processing.

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