Wheat Farmers

WHEAT

INTRODUCTION

Wheat (Triticum spp., most commonly T. aestivum) is a cereal grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) originally from the Levant region but now cultivated worldwide. In 2016, world production of wheat was 749 million tonnes, making it the second most-produced cereal after maize (1.03 billion tonnes), with more than rice (499 million tonnes). Since 1960, world production of wheat and other grain crops has tripled and is expected to grow further through the middle of the 21st Century.

Cultivation and repeated harvesting and sowing of the grains of wild grasses led to the creation of domestic strains, as mutant forms ('sports') of wheat were preferentially chosen by farmers. In domesticated wheat, grains are larger, and the seeds (inside the spikelets) remain attached to the ear by a toughened rachis during harvesting. In wild strains, a more fragile rachis allows the ear to easily shatter and disperse the spikelets.Selection for these traits by farmers might not have been deliberately intended, but simply have occurred because these traits made gathering the seeds easier; nevertheless such 'incidental' selection was an important part of crop domestication. As the traits that improve wheat as a food source also involve the loss of the plant's natural seed dispersal mechanisms, highly domesticated strains of wheat cannot survive in the wild.


Suppliers and Distributors

Supplier 1

Rishaan enterprises
Address:Panchkula,Haryana
Call:08071807156

Rs 14,000/Ton

Supplier 2

Agro Foods(p) Ltd.

Regd. Office : No. 80(Old No. 141) Greams Road, Chennai - 600 006, IndiaPhone : +91 44 2829 0707 Fax : +91 44 2829 0770 Email :  sales@nolgroup.com, contact@nolgroup.com