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ShareCereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis).
Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities worldwide than any other type of crop and provides more food energy to the human race than any other crop.
For more information about the topic Cereal, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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