AGRICULTURE AND TEXTILE
Soybean
The plant is known as the “large bean” in Chinese or yellow bean, Both the immature soybean and its dishare called edamame in Japan, but in English, edamame refers only to a specific dish. The genus name, Glycine, is the same as a simple amino acid. Since the early twentieth century soybean shave been called the ‘golden bean’ or ‘miracle bean’ in America. Fat-free (defatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap source of protein for animal feed sand many prepackaged meals; soy vegetable oil is another product of processing the soybean crop. For example, soybean products such as textured vegetable protein (TVP) are ingredients in many meat and dairy analogues. Soybeans produce significantly more protein peracre than most the ruses of land. Traditional nonfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, and from the latter tofu and tofu skin. Fermented foods include soy sauce, fermented bean paste, natto, and tempeh, among others. The oil is used in many industrial applications.
AGRICULTURE AND TEXTILE
Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryzasativa (Asianrice) or Oryzaglaberrima (Africanrice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world’s human population, especially in Asia. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest world wide production, after sugarcane and maize, according to data of FAOSTAT 2012.
AGRICULTURE AND TEXTILE
Wheat
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East but now cultivated worldwide. In 2013, world production of whea twas 713 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (1,016 milliontons) and rice (745 milliontons) Wheat was a key factor enabling the emergence of city-based societies at the start of civilization because it was one of the first crops that could be easily cultivated on a large scale, and had the additional advantage of yielding a harvest that provides long-term storage of food. Wheat contributed to the emergence of city-states in the Fertile Crescent, including the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes,breakfast cereal, pasta, noodles, couscous and for fermentation to make beer, other alcoholic beverages, and biofuel.
