Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation increased annual wheat production by 0.25 Mt yr−1.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- water availability through irrigatione0
- Outcome
- annual wheat productione0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 0.25e0
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Verbatim
e0“elevated [CO2] levels, water availability through irrigation, and nitrogen fertilizers have led to an increase in annual wheat production at 0.67, 0.25, and 0.26 Mt yr−1, respectively, averaged over the time period 1980–2016”
Title
Impact of environmental changes and land management practices on wheat production in India
Shilpa Gahlot; Tzu-Shun Lin; Atul K. Jain; et al. Earth System Dynamics 2020. doi:10.5194/esd-11-641-2020
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Method / resource ISAM simulated observed leaf area index at site scale.
- Method / resource ISAM simulated observed country scale production.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased annual wheat production by 0.67 Mt yr−1 over 1980–2016.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen fertilizers increased annual wheat production by 0.26 Mt yr−1.
- Intervention effect Elevated temperatures reduced wheat production by 0.39 Mt yr−1.
- Intervention effect CO2 forcing changed countrywide wheat production by 22 Mt (30%).
- Intervention effect Irrigation forcing changed countrywide wheat production by 8.47 Mt (12%).
- Intervention effect Fertilizer forcing changed countrywide wheat production by 10.63 Mt (15%).
- Intervention effect Temperature forcing changed countrywide wheat production by −13 Mt (−18%).
- Observation The Indo-Gangetic Plain was the most productive region.
- Observation The arid north-western region was the least productive.