Table 13.1 (continued)
Particulars
Units
Equivalent
energy
(MJ)
Remarks
Output
VIII Main product
a. Cereals (wheat, maize,
sorghum, bajra, barley, oats,
paddy (not shelled rice)) Pulses
(mash, green gram, lentil, red
gram, soybean, peas)
kg (dry
mass)
14.70
The main output is grains
b. Oilseeds (cottonseed,
groundnut, sesame, mustard,
rapeseed, linseed, sunflower)
kg (dry
mass)
25.00
The main output is seed except
for groundnut (where it is pod)
c. Sugarcane
kg
(at harvest)
5.30
d. Vegetables
i. Root or tuber vegetables
Higher food value: sweet
potato, tapioca
kg
5.60
Medium food value: potato,
beetroot, colocasia
kg
3.60
Low food value: carrot, radish,
onion, beetroot
kg
1.60
e. Fruit or seed vegetables
i. Broad beans, cluster beans,
ladyfingers
kg
1.90
ii. Gourd vegetables,
cucumber, drumstick, green
papaya, pumpkin, tomato,
chillies
kg
0.80
f. Leafy vegetables
Cabbage, spinach, green
mustard leaves
kg
0.80
g. Fruits
i. High value: tamarind, grapes kg
11.80
ii. Low food value: guava,
mango, amla, apple peach,
pears, pineapples, ber, sapota,
cashew, citrus
kg
1.90
h. Fibre crops (cotton, sunn
hemp, jute)
kg (dry
mass)
11.80
Main product is fibre
i. Fodder crops (berseem,
lucerne, senji, oats, maize,
bajra, sorghum, cowpea,
guava, napier)
kg (dry
mass)
18.00
The main product is dry or
green fodder
j. Green manure crops
(dhaincha, cowpea, sunn
hemp)
Energy equivalent to the
amount of nutrients added to the
soil as green manure
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