Claim · model-written summary
Transformative wheat yield gains require managing rice and wheat as a coupled system in eastern India.
- Taxon
- rice and wheat
Oryza sativa
Triticum aestivume0 - Outcome
- managed as a coupled systeme0
- Setting
- eastern Indiae0
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Verbatim
e0“transformative gains in wheat yields are only possible in eastern India if rice and wheat are managed as a coupled system”
Title
Andrew J. McDonald; Balwinder-Singh; Alwin Keil; et al. Nature Food 2022. doi:10.1038/s43016-022-00549-0
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Wheat sowing date had the strongest influence on achieved and attainable yields among surveyed factors.
- Intervention effect Achievable wheat sowing-date adjustments were estimated to increase untapped wheat production potential by 69%.
- Intervention effect The estimated sowing adjustments did not incur adverse trade-offs with rice productivity.
- Intervention effect The estimated sowing adjustments did not incur adverse irrigation trade-offs.
- Intervention effect The estimated sowing adjustments did not incur adverse profitability trade-offs.
- Recommendation The authors recommend better annual cropping-calendar management for food security, profitability and climate resilience.