The main food crops in northern China are

The main food crops in northern China are wheat and soybean.

Crops include food crops and cash crops. Grain crops are mainly rice, wheat, corn, beans and potatoes, which are the basic sources of our food and important feed and industrial raw materials. China is a traditional agricultural country with a long history of grain production and obvious geographical distribution. The south is a rice-producing area, and the north is a wheat-producing area. The cultivation of corn, beans and potatoes is relatively scattered.

A: Solution: Wheat is the main grain crop in the north of China, with spring wheat in the north and winter wheat in the south of the Great Wall. Cotton is mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Beets are mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and northern Xinjiang. Rice, sugarcane and rape are the main crops in southern China. The main cash crops in the north are cotton, peanuts, beets, apples and soybeans. Highland barley is a representative crop in Qinghai-Tibet region.

Soybean (Latin name: Glycine max (Linn. ) Merr), a leguminous soybean, is native to China and cultivated all over the world. Its plant is 30~90 cm high, its stem is stout, erect, densely covered with brown bristles, its leaves usually have 3 leaflets, its stipules are veined, it is yellow pilose, and its petiole is 2~20 cm long. The total pedicel usually has 5~8 sessile, dense flowers, the calyx is lanceolate, and the flowers are purple, lavender or white. Pods are fat, slightly curved, drooping, yellow-green, and densely covered with long brown hair; 2~5 seeds, oval, subglobose.