Enriching Genetic Diversity in Wheat for Eastern Gangetic Plains

Abstract

India has finned up its position as the second largest
producer of wheat in the world after China. During
2003-04, the production of wheat was recorded to the
tune of 71 million tones on the area of 26.4 million
ha with an average productivity of 2.7 tJ ha. It is projected
that India must produce 109 million tones of wheat
by the year 2020, when the population will be more
than 1.3 billion. Among the six mega wheat growing
zone,'), the northwest and north east put together, covers
around two-third of the total wheat area in the country.