International wheat production statistics
| Country | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|
| China | 131.4 | 134.3 |
| India | 99.7 | 98.5 |
| Russia | 72.1 | 85.9 |
| United States | 51.3 | 47.3 |
Best Varieties of Wheat
- Wheat Varieties for Rabi Season.
- Hi 8759 (Puja Tejas) One of the varieties of wheat having a high level of rust resistance.
- HD 4728(Pusa Malawi) The variety that gives an average yield of 5.42 t/ha with the maximum genetic potential of 6.8t/ha.
- HW 5207 (COW3)
- HS 562.
- HD 3171.
- HD 1605 (Pusa Ujala)
India is the world's largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit and cotton.
The United States exported some 27.22 million metric tons of wheat in 2018/2019, and imported about 3.81 million metric tons of wheat in that time period. In 2018/2019, the United States had the fifth largest production volume of wheat worldwide, at 51.29 million metric tons.
Spaniards brought wheat to Mexico in the early 1500s, where cultivation spread to the southwestern United States. Other explorers took grains of wheat to the eastern coast of the United States, where colonists —like President George Washington — grew it as one of their main cash crops.
About half of the wheat grown in the United States is used domestically. In 2008, the state of Kansas was the largest wheat producer in the United States with North Dakota a close second. Kansas is number one in flour milling in the United States.
There are no genetically engineered wheat varieties currently approved for sale in the United States or any other country, and yet biotechnology companies continue to allow their GMOs to contaminate fallow fields. This is not the first time wheat has been contaminated by an unapproved GMO.
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China has the largest land area devoted to wheat production, followed closely by the United States, India and the Russian Federation. Kazakhstan and Canada, ranking fifth and sixth, produce wheat on about half the area of the top four countries.
Winter wheat accounts for 70 to 80 percent of total production in the US, with the largest amounts produced in Kansas (10.8 million tons) and North Dakota (9.8 million tons).
In India, wheat is grown during the winter or rabi season. The crop is sown during November-December and harvested around April.
It is very possible to grow your own wheat. It seems like a daunting task given the specialized equipment and large farms that commercial wheat farmers utilize, but the fact is that there are a couple of fallacies regarding growing wheat yourself that have turned even the most die-hard gardener from the idea.
Top 10 Wheat Producing States: 2015-2016
| S.No. | State/ UT | Wheat (Th. tonnes) |
|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 26,874 |
| 2 | Madhya Pradesh | 17,689 |
| 3 | Punjab | 16,081 |
| 4 | Haryana | 11,352 |
Uttar Pradesh comes under the top farming state in India and the rank of Uttar Pradesh counted under major state wise crop production in India, bajra, rice, sugarcane, food grains, and many more. It comes under the top wheat producing states in India, followed by Haryana, Punjab, and Madhya Pradesh.
CROPS OF INDIA
| States | Crops |
|---|
| Bihar | Rice, Wheat, Maize, Pulses, Vegetables, Fruits, Sugarcane, Jute |
| Gujarat | Rice, Wheat, Jowar, Bajra, Maize, tur, Gram, Cotton, Groundnuts, Dates, Sugarcane |
| Madhya Pradesh | Wheat, Maize, Jowar, Gram, Tur, Urad, Moong, Soybean, Groundnuts, Mustard, Cotton, Sugarcane |
- Wheat is considered as the major Rabi crop of Punjab which is a winter crop.
- Top three states producing wheat are Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana.
- After Rice, wheat is the second most important crop of India.
- The staple food in north and north western India is wheat.
Madhya Pradesh tops the list with 0.76 million ha of area under organic cultivation — that is over 27 per cent of India's total organic cultivation area. The top three states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra — account for about half the area under organic cultivation.
