In recent years, the rate of global warming is increasing along with its visible impacts. In that way, the strongly impacted sector is Agriculture. Agriculture being the most important sector in the world, plays a crucial role globally. Global warming and climate changes are the deciding factors on the productivity of the crops.
Recent studies has shown that, for every 1 degree increase in temperature, the per person availability of calories decrease by 4%. by 2100. Warming can affect the yield by exposing the plants to the high temperature or by altering the precipitation pattern. The major most staple crops like Rice, Wheat Sorghum, Maize and Soybean will see a diminished yield by 2050. North India being the most Wheat sown region, will see a huge down fall in yield.
It becomes mandatory to see how farmers adapt the cropping patterns and other operations to the rising temperatures. Some of the commonly adapted methods include: Using of heat resistant varieties, altering the time of sowing and tweaking the time of watering. These serves as the realistic cultural practices known so far that could help the farmers to overcome the warming issues.
Wheat losses are notably consistent across the main wheat growing regions, with high emissions yield losses of 45% to 25% in Europe, Africa and Soth America and 30% to 40% in China, Russia, Canada and US. Wheat growing areas of West china shows both gain and losses.
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