Which one of the following is not a food crop?

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Rice

Wheat

Cotton

Maize

answer is C.

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The cotton crop is a fibre-delivering plant and is herbaceous. It is not utilised as food as it is used for making garments.
1)      Cotton is a Kharif crop which expects six to eight months to develop.
2)      It is used for making different kinds of apparel and is also found in bed sheets draperies, and its seed oil is utilised in manufacturing beauty care products.
3)      The cotton seeds are used to care for dairy cattle and make elastic plastics by pulverising.
4)      Maise, Bajra, Paddy and Wheat are food crops as these all are utilised as food by people. Their fundamental objective is to be used as food containing fibre and proteins, which are essential for our body.

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