Vegetable Crops

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Welcome to class, we will be talking about vegetable crops. I am sure that as you follow up you will enjoy the class.

Meaning Of Vegetables

Vegetables are usually leafy plant crops, grown for their leaves. vegetable crops, is here meant to refer to a classification of agricultural crops under horticulture. These crops are plants having edible parts that are used in culinary preparations either cooked or raw, as in salad recipes.

 ACTIVITY

• Mention some common vegetable plant in your locality.
• Would you classify tomatoes as vegetables?

Examples of common vegetables include:

Pepper, okra, green(Amaranthus), cabbage, bitter leaf, water leaf, pumpkin leaves(Ugu), ewedu leaves, etc

Common vegetables in Nigeria

Uses Of Vegetable Crops

1. They are used in cooking or preparing soup even stew.
2. Some vegetables are eaten raw eg cabbage
3. Some vegetables are used as medicine to prepare local herbs.
4. They provide us with iron, calcium and other vitamins
5. Animals or livestock are fed with vegetables.
6. They are sources of roughages which are needed during digestion.

EVALUATION

1. Name four leafy vegetables you know

1. ———–. b) ————-.  c) ——————   d) ——————-
2. Pepper and Okra are ———-  a) Fruits.   b) Vegetables.  c) Tuber crops
3. Vegetables can serve as food to man. True or False ————
4. Vegetables also have ——— value. a) costly   b) medicinal.   c) foodly
5. Our body can derive ——– from vegetables. a) vitamins.  b) proteins.

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