food grain

American  

noun

1. any cereal grain produced for human consumption.

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Etymology

Origin of food grain

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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food grain

The IMF said the Black Sea deal had been instrumental in facilitating food, grain, and fertilizer exports from Ukraine to the rest of the world.

From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023

India's federal government offers free food grain to about 800 million people, about 57% of country's 1.4 billion population, while states spend billions of dollars on subsidising education, health, electricity and other services.

From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2023

To ease the burden for households, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered pandemic relief through free food grain and easy bank credit.

From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2022

And yet India’s food grain stocks are currently nearly three times more than the normal reserve, a paradox that Ghosh, the economist, said was impossible to explain.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021

The value of the vegetable food, grain, potatoes, rice and apples exported from the United States within the past few years is thus set down:— Dollars.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.