The role of high lysine cereals in animal and human nutrition in Asia

摘要

Cereals play an important role in world agriculture. They contribute significantly to the global food pool in achieving food and nutritional security. Considering the area sown and annual production volume, they occupy an important position in the world economy and trade as food, feed and industrial grain crops. In 2000, the area harvested was roughly 675 million hectares which produced 2059.8 million tonnes with an average yield of 3049 kilograms per hectare (Table 1). As can be seen, wheat, rice and maize are of prime importance but area and production from other crops such as barley, sorghum, oats, rye and millet are also quite significant. It may be noted that maize has a great potential for yielding more per unit of land area than other cereals.