Everything you need to learn about wheat cultivation, harvest and growth. Introduction to Wheat: Wheat is one of the most important food crops, which is grown extensively throughout the world. The maximum area under the crop is in USSR, followed by USA and India. In the last named country, wheat is next to rice in importance as a staple food. [...]
Under favorable environment, about 1000 m3 of water is needed to produce 1.0 t of wheat. About half of this is used in transpiration and the other half is lost by evaporation and unavoidable deep percolation. Under less favourable conditions, about 5000 m3 water is needed to produce 1.0 t of wheat. On an average, the water requirement of wheat [...]
Management practices discussed for irrigated and rainfed wheat are summerised as package of practices for wheat production. Irrigated Wheat: Tillage: 1. Well pulvarised but compact seedbed is necessary for uniform seed germination. 2. Two to three ploughings followed by a harrowing leads to an ideal seedbed. 3. In intensive cropping systems (rice-wheat, maize-wheat, cotton-wheat etc), zero tillage seed drills appear [...]