What are cereals?

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Cereals are grass plants providing starchy products. Also called cereals to fruits of these plants, such as wheat, rye, barley, sorghum, millet, rice, corn and oats, among others. They are an important source of food for living organisms. The man gives to the cereals various applications. The most important is the bakery, which employs substantially the wheat and rye. For the production of pasta is used, especially wheat. Other edible products used as inputs these plants, such as flour, polenta, bran, malt and beer, alcoholic beverages, etc. Cereals such as sorghum, oats, barley and maize are also grown to feed animals. In addition, many of them are used in the manufacture of other non-food products. The cultivation of cereals began in areas of temperate or warm but gradually it spread to the rest of the world.

The yield of cereal crops has increased markedly in the last few decades of the twentieth century, due to the development of technological packages, which include genetic improvement of crops and the use of agrochemicals (fertilizers and pesticides).

Where began the cultivation of cereal?

The testimonies of cereal remote exploitation found by archaeologists were grains of wheat found in Iran, dating from 6700 BC

The most cultivated cereal in the world are wheat, which was probably the first cereal cultivated by man, corn, originating in America, and rice, staple food for peoples of the East.

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