It is very widely grown. It is a winter crop. Generally it is grown in association with other crop like wheat. But it matures earlier than wheat. Oil is obtained from the seeds. It is mainly used for cooking. The chief producing countries are india,Pakistan and Western European countries.
Sesame seed:
Oil extracted from the seeds. It require moderate temperature about 21° to 23°c. The rainfall for its well growth must be between 20 to 25 inches. It grown well in light loamy soils. It is used for cooking oil. The leading producers are India,Mexico's and China.
Sunflower:
Sunflower is one of the most important annual crops grown for edible oil purpose in the world next to soybean and pm oil. It has 40 50 percent oil in it's seed. The seed are consumed as human food as roasted nuts and nut meats besides extensive use as bird food. It has several advantage such as high yield potential matures in 90 to 120 days drought tolerant tolerate insects and disease iy grows in poor and well drained soil and rich in edible oil and protein. It is cultivated latrgelyin subtropical and warm temperature countries. It can be grown by rotation with wheat and cotton. It require high temperature and moderate rainfall.
The oil is of good and is used mainly for cooking. It cake is rich in digestible protein and fee from toxic elements which make it extremely useful for poultry and livestock. Due to short growth period sunflower has proved a very suitable crop. In tropical areas two crops are grown one in spring and other in autumn.....
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