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Shortlisted crops

FOOD CORPS
Breadfruit, asparagus, oat, beet, brassica complex, pigeon pea, chickpea, citrus, coconut, major aroids, carrot, yams, finger millet, strawberry, sunflower, barley, sweet potato, grass pea, lentil, apple, cassava, banana/plantain, rice, pearl millet, beans, pea, rye, potato, eggplant, sorghum, triticale, wheat, faba bean/vetch, cowpea and maize.

LEGUME FORAGES
Astragalus, canavalia, coronilla, hedysarum, lathyrus, lespedeza, lotus, lupinus, medicago, melilotus, onobrychis, ornithopus, prosopis, pueraria and trifolium.

GRASS FORAGES
Adropogon, agropyron, agrostis, alopecurus, arrhenatherum, dactylis, festuca, lolium, phalaris, phleum, poa and tripsacum.

OTHER FORAGES
Atriplex and salsola.

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