01 Products of agriculture, horticulture and market gardening

**Includes:** This group includes cereals, i.e. annual plants, generally of the gramineous family, yielding grains or seeds used as such, or processed, for food, feed, seed and industrial purposes, e.g., ethanol. The denomination "cereals" should be limited to crops harvested for their dry grains only. The subclasses labeled for seeds contain cereals grown specifically as seeds, whether or not processed. These seeds usually must fulfill certain quality requirements. Cereals not grown specifically for seed purposes should be classified as "other", even though some portion of the yield may be used as seed by the farmer.

**Includes:** This group includes vegetables, i.e. temporary crops cultivated principally for human consumption both as field crops and garden crops, in the open and under protective cover. Certain gramineous and leguminous plants, if harvested for their dry grains, are classified as cereals and pulses, but belong to this group when they are harvested while green for their green grains or for their green pods (green maize, green peas, string beans, etc.). This group also includes melons, watermelons, and mushrooms. Vegetables cultivated mainly for animal feed or cultivated only for their seeds are excluded. Vegetables are grouped here according to botanic characteristics as follows: leafy or stem vegetables (with leaves, stems, and/or flowers edible, e.g., cabbages and cauliflowers); fruit-bearing vegetables (with edible fruits, e.g., melons); root, bulb and tuber vegetables (with roots, bulbs, and/or tubes edible, e.g., onions); green leguminous vegetables (containing green grains and green pods, e.g., green peas); other vegetables n.e.c. (e.g., green maize, mushrooms).

CPC v2.1 group (Fruits and nuts) within 'Products of agriculture, horticulture and market gardening'. UN Central Product Classification grouping of related products at this level.

**Includes:** This group includes oil-bearing crops, i.e. annual and perennial plants whose seeds (oilseeds), fruits or mesocarp, nuts and kernels (oil palm) are used primarily for extraction of culinary and industrial oils and fats, excluding essential oils.

**Includes:** This group includes roots and tubers, i.e. plants grown generally as annual crops, yielding roots, tubers, rhizomes, corms and stems that are mainly used for human consumption. Excluded from this group are roots and tubers used mainly for feed, for processing into sugar, and those classified as vegetables.

**Includes:** This group includes stimulants, spices and aromatic crops, as explained below. Stimulants are permanent trees or shrubs whose fruits or leaves are characterized by their alkaloid content, such as caffeine, theobromine and theine. Spices are plants which in one or the other of their components (rhizome, bark, fruits, berries, seeds, etc.), contain strongly flavoured and aromatic substances. For that reason they are used mainly as condiments, but have also applications for cosmetic and medicinal preparations. Most of these plants are perennial. Aromatic crops are leaves and seeds of numerous plants with less strong flavoured substances than spices but largely used in the kitchen. Most of these plants are spontaneous (not cultivated).

**Includes:** This group includes pulses, i.e. annual leguminous crops yielding grains or seeds of different sizes, shapes and colours contained in various numbers within a pod. The term "pulses" should be limited to crops harvested for dry grains only, excluding, therefore, those harvested green for the seeds or for the pods or both.

CPC v2.1 group (Sugar crops) within 'Products of agriculture, horticulture and market gardening'. UN Central Product Classification grouping of related products at this level.

CPC v2.1 group (Forage products; fibre crops; plants used in perfumery, pharmacy, or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes; beet, forage plant and flower seeds; natural rubber; living plants, cut flowers and flower buds; unmanufactured tobacco; other raw vegetable materials) within 'Products of agriculture, horticulture and market gardening'. UN Central Product Classification grouping of related products at this level.