Overview: transitioning wheat research to serve the future needs of the developing world
For millennia wheat has provided daily sustenance for a large proportion of the world's population. It is produced in a wide range of climatic environments and geographic regions. During 2004-2006, the global annual harvested area of "bread wheat" and "durum wheat" averaged 217 million ha, producing 621 million tons of grain with a value of approximately US$ 150 billion. About 116 million ha of wheat was grown in developing countries, producing 308 million tons of grain (FAO 2007) with a value of approximately US$ 75 billion. Wheat fulfills a wide range of demands from different end-users, including staple food for a large proportion of the world's poor farmers and consumers. The similarity between average yields in developed and developing regions is deceptive: in developed countries around 90% of the wheat area is rainfed, while in developing countries more than half of the wheat area is irrigated, especially in the large producers India and China. In addition, there are large differences in productivity3 among countries within the two groups of countries, and even among countries applying similar agronomic practices. For instance, among major rainfed producers (over one million ha), the average national yield ranges from about 0.9 t ha-1 in Kazakhstan to 2.6 t ha-1 in Canada and up to 7.9 t ha-1 in the United Kingdom. Similarly, there are contrasts among irrigated producers, for example, India has an average yield of 2.6 t ha-1 compared with 6.5 t ha-1 in Egypt. Thus, there is clearly considerable scope for increasing productivity in many countries.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-39782022-11-30T19:49:12Z Overview: transitioning wheat research to serve the future needs of the developing world Dixon, J. Braun, H.J. Crouch, J.H. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY WHEAT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT For millennia wheat has provided daily sustenance for a large proportion of the world's population. It is produced in a wide range of climatic environments and geographic regions. During 2004-2006, the global annual harvested area of "bread wheat" and "durum wheat" averaged 217 million ha, producing 621 million tons of grain with a value of approximately US$ 150 billion. About 116 million ha of wheat was grown in developing countries, producing 308 million tons of grain (FAO 2007) with a value of approximately US$ 75 billion. Wheat fulfills a wide range of demands from different end-users, including staple food for a large proportion of the world's poor farmers and consumers. The similarity between average yields in developed and developing regions is deceptive: in developed countries around 90% of the wheat area is rainfed, while in developing countries more than half of the wheat area is irrigated, especially in the large producers India and China. In addition, there are large differences in productivity3 among countries within the two groups of countries, and even among countries applying similar agronomic practices. For instance, among major rainfed producers (over one million ha), the average national yield ranges from about 0.9 t ha-1 in Kazakhstan to 2.6 t ha-1 in Canada and up to 7.9 t ha-1 in the United Kingdom. Similarly, there are contrasts among irrigated producers, for example, India has an average yield of 2.6 t ha-1 compared with 6.5 t ha-1 in Egypt. Thus, there is clearly considerable scope for increasing productivity in many countries. 44 pages 2014-03-13T01:09:52Z 2014-03-13T01:09:52Z 2008 Book http://hdl.handle.net/10883/3978 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF Mexico CIMMYT |
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For millennia wheat has provided daily sustenance for a large proportion of the world's population. It is produced in a wide range of climatic environments and geographic regions. During 2004-2006, the global annual harvested area of "bread wheat" and "durum wheat" averaged 217 million ha, producing 621 million tons of grain with a value of approximately US$ 150 billion. About 116 million ha of wheat was grown in developing countries, producing 308 million tons of grain (FAO 2007) with a value of approximately US$ 75 billion. Wheat fulfills a wide range of demands from different end-users, including staple food for a large proportion of the world's poor farmers and consumers. The similarity between average yields in developed and developing regions is deceptive: in developed countries around 90% of the wheat area is rainfed, while in developing countries more than half of the wheat area is irrigated, especially in the large producers India and China. In addition, there are large differences in productivity3 among countries within the two groups of countries, and even among countries applying similar agronomic practices. For instance, among major rainfed producers (over one million ha), the average national yield ranges from about 0.9 t ha-1 in Kazakhstan to 2.6 t ha-1 in Canada and up to 7.9 t ha-1 in the United Kingdom. Similarly, there are contrasts among irrigated producers, for example, India has an average yield of 2.6 t ha-1 compared with 6.5 t ha-1 in Egypt. Thus, there is clearly considerable scope for increasing productivity in many countries. |
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