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Wheat |
Maize |
Rice |
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Potatoes |
Bananas |
Pulses |
All these produce starch, helping to provide energy and nutrition.
Wheat takes up more of the world's surface than any other crop.
Since the ‘Green Revolution', the breeding programme of the 1960s
and 70s, wheat yields have increased around 15-fold.