Claim · model-written summary
Farmers applied 25% of the irrigation water required for maximum potential grain yield in 2018–2020.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Outcome
- irrigation water required to achieve the maximum potential grain yielde0
- Value
- 25%e0
- Qualifier
- 2018–2020e0
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Verbatim
e0“For the field data’s measured period (2018–2020), we showed that farmers applied only 25% of the irrigation water required to achieve the maximum potential grain yield”
t0“Wheat Crop in Nepal”
Title
Santosh Kaini; Matthew Tom Harrison; Ted Gardner; et al. Water 2022. doi:10.3390/w14172728
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Actual wheat yields were below 50% of potential yields.
- Observation RCP4.5 projected a 3% increase in irrigation water demand by century end.
- Observation RCP8.5 projected an 8% decrease in irrigation water demand by century end.
- Mechanism Reduced irrigation demand under RCP8.5 was attributed to truncated crop duration and lower maturity biomass.
- Observation Simulated wheat yields declined by 20% under climate change.
- Recommendation Authors infer irrigation alone will not offset climate damage to crop production.