Koova, commonly called arrowroot is a group of ginger like plants with sizes ranging from less than two feet to six feet and color from white to dark purple. The underground stem of the plant is the usable part, which yields flour. The rhizome is also eaten boiled. Flouring is necessary for better preservation and for making different culinary items like biscuits.

The cultivation of this crop is largely on decline in the state. It has medicinal properties and is used in curing disorders to stomach and other Ayurvedic Treatments. Maranta arundinaceae belongs to the family Marantaceae.

Sugarcane is a grass plant that grows up to 2.5 meters, yielding fleshy sappy stem, from which sugar is produced.

In India, sugarcane seedlings are planted in plantations. The harvesting time is when the leaves starting drying off. In some places the whole sugar cane plantation is set on fire. The dry leaves quickly burn down. The fleshy cane remains unaffected, which is cut at the base. The sugarcane thus harvested in then sent to extraction of sugarcane juice from the stem followed by refining. The refined sugar is 99% sucrose, a combination of glucose and fructose.