Energy and power use pattern in production agriculture in Punjab (India) Punjab is agriculture base state with major crops grown is wheat, paddy, maize, cotton, sugarcane and potato. The cropping intensity is about 185%. A study revealed that irrigation alone consumes 51% of total energy used...
Wheat production in India faces challenges due to water scarcity and suboptimal nitrogen (N) management practices. To address this problem, a multi-location (9) field experiment comprising of 9 treatments by including nano and prilled urea alone or in combination was conducted under restricted ...
India was the second-largest producer of wheat in 2020, with a share of around 14.14 percent of the world's total production. Still, India accounts for less than one percent of the world's wheat exports, although its share has increased from 0.14 percent in 2016 to 0.54 percent in 2020....
In 2022/23, the country imported about 122 million bushels of wheat, while exporting 758 million bushels. North Dakota, Kansas, and Montana were the leading U.S. states in terms of wheat production in 2023. Post Shredded Wheat Post Shredded Wheat is a brand of breakfast cereal, made ...
Wheat powdery mildew is one of the most destructive diseases threatening global wheat production. The wild relatives of wheat constitute rich sources of diversity for powdery mildew resistance. Here, we report the map-based cloning of the powdery mildew resistance genePm13from the wild wheat species...
Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina Erikss., is a prevalent disease limiting wheat production worldwide1. Yield reductions in susceptible wheat cultivars typically range from trace to 30% and may exceed 50%. The yield loss can be mitigated by the introduction of genetic resistance2. More th...
Rice-wheat rotation system (RWS) is the most important food production system in South Asia and contributes approximately 50% of the total food consumed in India. Building climate resilience of RWS in the context of global warming is critical to sustainably feeding the ever-increasing population in...
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- What will a hotter Earth bring to wheat consumers and farmers? A new study predicts that global prices for the grain will exhibit steeper spikes at 2 degrees Celsius warming despite a slight increase in production. ...
Climate warming poses challenges for food production at low latitudes, particularly in arid regions. Sudan, where wheat demand could triple by 2050, has the world’s hottest wheat-growing environments, and observed yield declines in hot seasons are promp
However, most of the production comes from 8 key regions of the world, which accounted for 78% of the global production in 2016 (Fig. 1 and Table 1 in the Supplementary material). Wheat is exposed and vulnerable to extremes occurring in critical phenological phases2,3,4,5,6. Events such...