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Wheat Crop Ensuring Food Security in India


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1 Indogulf Crop Sciences Ltd., New Delhi, India
2 S.S.I. College, Khatuli, Muzaffarnagar (U.P.), India
3 ICAR- NASF, KAB-1, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India
4 A.S. College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr (U.P.), India
     

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Wheat is the second most important crop in India and a principal source of calorie intake. During independence, the country was dependent on wheat import to meet the food demand of the country. Due to the lodging prone low yielding nature of Indian wheat under high fertility conditions, there remained a continuous need for a breakthrough in wheat production. The dream of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the father of green revolution in India during mid sixties that came true to materialize the spurt of the Green Revolution in the India by which our country to meet domestic demand from its own production and became a wheat surplus country from a deficient one. Wheat crop plays a major role in creating a status of food security in India. The production level of Wheat in India had a quantum jump from 6.46 million tons from an area of 9.75 million ha in 1950-51 to more than 93.50 million tons from an area of about 302.27 million hectares with productivity of 3093 kg per hectare during 2015-16.
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Authors

Arvind Kumar
Indogulf Crop Sciences Ltd., New Delhi, India
Sudhir Kumar
S.S.I. College, Khatuli, Muzaffarnagar (U.P.), India
Ashok Kumar
ICAR- NASF, KAB-1, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India
O. V. S. Thenua
A.S. College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr (U.P.), India

Abstract


Wheat is the second most important crop in India and a principal source of calorie intake. During independence, the country was dependent on wheat import to meet the food demand of the country. Due to the lodging prone low yielding nature of Indian wheat under high fertility conditions, there remained a continuous need for a breakthrough in wheat production. The dream of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the father of green revolution in India during mid sixties that came true to materialize the spurt of the Green Revolution in the India by which our country to meet domestic demand from its own production and became a wheat surplus country from a deficient one. Wheat crop plays a major role in creating a status of food security in India. The production level of Wheat in India had a quantum jump from 6.46 million tons from an area of 9.75 million ha in 1950-51 to more than 93.50 million tons from an area of about 302.27 million hectares with productivity of 3093 kg per hectare during 2015-16.