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Centre forms a panel to monitor impact of rising temperatures on wheat crops, experts fear dip in output if heat persists | India News



NEW DELHI: Amid concerns about the impact of rising temperatures on overall wheat and mustard yields, the government has set up a committee to monitor the situation and provide advice to farmers on apply micro-irrigation to minimize damage and avoid a repeat of last year’s situation when yields were reduced due to the early onset of the heat wave.
Although increased temperatures will not affect early-seeded and heat-tolerant wheat varieties, it is estimated that the December-January sowing crop will be affected by 5-10% if the condition is adjusted. Heat conditions worsened before harvest. Increasing temperature can also affect mustard production by 4-6%.
“The increase in temperature will affect the yield of both mustard and wheat. But it will affect wheat more strongly. In the wheat-cane cycle, most of the wheat is sown between December and January, accounting for 60% of total wheat production. Late-sown wheat is in the warm-up or milking phase and therefore higher temperatures will cause grain to shrivel,” said the farm expert. Sudhir Panwar.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted that north-west, central and western India could record a maximum temperature of 3 to 5 degrees above normal over the next five days.
Many regions of the country, which coincide with wheat and mustard growing regions such as Punjab, Haryana, western UP and Madhya Pradesh, recorded higher than normal temperatures. The wheat crop usually enters the seeding phase in March and any unusual increase in temperature can cause yield losses.
Panwar, former member of Uttar Pradesh Planning Commission“If the temperature prediction turns out to be correct, it will lead to 10% lower yields of wheat and 4-6% lower mustard,” said.
The move to form a government committee comes as the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecasting Center (MNCFC) forecasts that maximum temperatures in the major wheat-producing regions except Madhya Pradesh are higher than average. usually in the last 7 years during the first winter. week of February.
The committee will have members from the agriculture ministry and also from Karnal based on Wheat Research Institute and representatives from the major wheat-growing states.
The ministry has estimated wheat production at a record level of about 112 million tonnes (MT) for the 2022-2023 crop year (July-June cycle). Its production fell slightly to nearly 108 tons last year due to early heatwave conditions in several states.

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