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How can we protect wheat?
Prepare grain bins. The first step for quality grain is to make sure your storage facilities are prepared for the grain going in. ...
Store quality grain. ...
Dry to the right moisture content. ...
Improve aeration. ...
Control the temperature. ...
Keep cool in summer. ...
Check grain frequently. ...
Watch for insects.
01-Oct-2021
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Wheat is the second most important staple food after rice consumed by 65% of the population in India and is likely to increase further due to changes in food habits. Wheat is mostly consumed in the form of ‘chapati’ in our country for which bread wheat is cultivated in nearly 95 per cent of the cropped area. Durum wheat, which is most suitable for making macaroni, noodles, semolina and pasta products, occupies about 4 to 5% of the area, and is predominantly grown in Central and Peninsular parts of India.
Present status
The organized wheat research in India is almost a century old. It was primarily initiated at the then Imperial Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) Pusa, Bihar. During the sixties, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi served as flagship of the Indian wheat programme. The All India Coordinated Wheat Improvement Project, initiated in 1965, was subsequently upgraded in 1978 of the status of the Project Directorate and later on was shifted to its present location at Karnal (Directorate of Wheat Research) in 1990. Through coordinated research efforts more than 316 wheat varieties suited to different agro-ecological conditions and growing situations have been released so far. The packages of technology, services and public policies introduced since the beginning of the first Five Year Plan in 1950, the country has transformed itself from a "begging bowl" image to one which now occupies the second position in terms of wheat production and area in the world.
The wheat production increased from a mere 12.5 million tons in 1964 to 92.46 million tones in 2013. The projected demand for wheat by the year 2020 A.D. will be 109 million tons and to achieve this, new technological advances are to be made. In the area of crop improvement emphasis would be to develop new genotypes that are capable of yielding beyond 7.0 t/ha.
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