Wheat in India: a Geospatial Approach for Enhancing Productivity

The book provides exclusive information on the status of wheat and use of Geospatial Technology for enhancing wheat productivity. The efforts have been made to provide wheat relevant information at one place so that readers get complete knowledge of the wheat including wheat biology and factors affecting distribution of wheat in India. The major diseases and pests of wheat have also been listed in the book. The agronomical practices for enhancing wheat productivity have been given due attention. In addition to that, limiting factors of wheat growth and development such as climate change have also been presented. Crop simulation model plays an important role in optimizing the resources like irrigation, fertilizer applications, sowing time and harvesting. Therefore different simulation models developed so far across the world have also been discussed. Geospatial technology is playing a significantly increasing role in agriculture. Geospatial technology provides crucial information about the state of the crop at larger area with higher repeativity. The information becomes crucial in country like India.