The Important food crops that are cultivated likely rice, maize, jowar (cholam), bajra (cumbu), Redgram, Greengram, ragi and pulses (Bengalgram, Redgram, Greengram, Blackgram and Horsegram). The cash crops like sugarcane, oilseeds,cotton,coffee, tea, gingelly, rubber, coconut and chillies. Mostly produced horticultural products are bananas and mangoes only.The state which is the largest producer and cultivater of flowers,bananas,tapioca, the second largest producer and cultivater of mangoes,coconut, natural rubber, groundnut and the third largest producer and cultivater of tea, sapota, coffee and sugarcane.Tamil Nadu's cultivation yield of sugarcane per hectare is the highest yield in comparing to the other states of India.
