Extent of vulnerability in wheat producing agro-ecologies of India: Tracking from indicators of cross-section and multi-dimension data

Sendhil, R; Jha, Ankita; Kumar, Anuj; Singh, Sanjay

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.02.053

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“…Burgeoning population vis-à-vis increasing demand for food; growing competition for cultivable land, irrigation water and energy; intensive cropping especially in the Indo-Gangetic Plains resulting in irrational use of resources; pestenvironment interaction; reduction of natural resource base; declining total factor productivity; and yield plateau (Figure 6) are the prominent challenges put forth against crop production [11][12][13][14]. Wheat production not only faces the above routine challenges, but the intensity gets magnified in the context of climate change owing to its vulnerability [15][16][17][18]. Wheat Production in India: Trends and Prospects DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86341…”

Section: Production Constraints and Challenges For Wheat Productionmentioning

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Wheat Production in India: Trends and Prospects

Ramadas¹,

Kumar²,

Singh³

2020

Recent Advances in Grain Crops Research

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Trends in Indian wheat production before and after the inception of the All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on wheat have been analyzed to show its significant progress over the years. A brief intercountry comparison of productivity, production and area coupled with regional comparison within India has been attempted to give an idea about the contribution of country and regions, respectively, for global and national food security. The milestones in Indian wheat programme and research outcomes were highlighted post-AICRP along with the vision and strategies set for 2050 against diverse production challenges. Regional disparities, zone-wise production constraints and research programmes for achieving the set production target were briefed. The chapter concludes with possible interventions in strengthening the complete wheat value chain for ensuring food security for the future generation.

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Section: Production Constraints and Challenges For Wheat Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wheat Production in India: Trends and Prospects

Ramadas¹,

Kumar²,

Singh³

2020

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111

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“…Thus, in combination with the vulnerability information provided by O'Brien et al [21], assessing the agricultural risk is essential and such assessments can be obtained by including probabilistic climatic hazard information. More recently, Sendhil et al [23] performed a detailed vulnerability assessment of wheat crop across the Indian states by considering agricultural, hydrological and socio-economic indicators. The states were ranked based on their sensitivity, exposure, adaptive capacity and vulnerability index.…”

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Increasing agricultural risk to hydro-climatic extremes in India

Sharma

Hari

Karmakar

et al. 2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Indian agriculture is globally well-documented to reflect the impacts of changing climate significantly. However, climate adaptation efforts are often hindered due to the inadequate assessment of coupled human-environment interactions. In this study, we propose a novel unified country-level framework to quantify the decadal agricultural risks derived from multiple hydro-meteorological exposures and adaptive consequences. We identify, for the first time, that rice and wheat risks have increased in the recent decade, with wheat at a twofold higher magnitude than rice. Increasing crops risk is found to be predominantly driven by the decreasing number of cultivators; in particular, the wheat risk is also attributed to increasing minimum temperatures during the crop growing season. We provide convincing evidence indicating that the hydro-climatic hazards related to precipitation extremes and droughts are specifically alarming the crops risk as compared to temperature extremes. These observation-based results highlight the sensitivity of India's agriculture and the risk associated with multiple agro-ecological and climatic components. We recommend these findings to facilitate the informed planning of adaptive measures and ensure sustainable food security of the nation.

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“…Results from the spatio-temporal analysis using the emerging hotspot analysis are well correlated with the actual observed facts. The presence of consecutive hot spots for yield in the northern India suggests less acceleration of yield improvement occurring there, similar observations on changes in wheat yield was made by Tripathi and Mishra, 2017;Sendhil et al, 2018 andAsseng et al, 2017), probably as a result of transformation to new settlements as a consequence of an intensifying rural complex due to NCR's fast increasing population (Statistical Abstracts of Delhi (SAD), 2014). Similarly the new cold spot appearance in the northern Gujarat and western Rajasthan for wheat crop area, coincides with the saline water intrusions and the presence of arid desert (Roy et al 2016) respectively.…”

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Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wheat Crop Cultivation in India

Krishnan

Aggarwal

Mridha

et al. 2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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This study was conducted to understand the changes in spatiotemporal characteristics of wheat crop production including the changes in area and yield. We employed the emerging hot and cold spot analysis along with space time cube and space-time cluster density analysis to study the spatial changes in wheat crop production, area and yield, and understand the changes in spatiotemporal features. We made a comprehensive analysis of the changes in wheat crop production, area and yield on pan India basis for the period from 1999 to 2015. The major findings were: (a) During the study period significant increase in wheat yield occurred within the North Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and intensifying hot spots appeared within the Indo-Gangetic plains. (b) The Analysis of the area under wheat cultivation showed a persistent hot spot in the Northern states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, with new hot spots observed in the regions of Central India during the years 2014 and 2015. (d) The analysis of the wheat crop production showed significant new cold spots in Rajasthan and Gujarat, with intensifying hotspots emanating into the lower delta regions of Ganges. Present study also revealed the potential of GIS based data models when related with additional background information, to segregate the most significant clusters of changes (increase / decrease) happening over active wheat crop cultivation. We expect the results from this study to help in increasing the wheat crop yield and production in the future.

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Extent of vulnerability in wheat producing agro-ecologies of India: Tracking from indicators of cross-section and multi-dimension data

Cited by 56 publications

References 29 publications

Wheat Production in India: Trends and Prospects

Wheat Production in India: Trends and Prospects

Increasing agricultural risk to hydro-climatic extremes in India

Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wheat Crop Cultivation in India

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