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Hurdles in Wheat Production

Brazil’s Embrapa, the lead government agricultural research agency, says the goal is for the country to become self-sufficient in wheat, and that goal does not include the use of transgenic plants. But maybe it should. It is not achieving increased wheat production via yield, that is down 16 percent since 2016/17. Instead, it has increased the area harvested by 18 percent. Better use in genetics in wheat might be more sustainable approach. Global production of wheat by major exporters could use a technical helping hand. Kazakhstan is now in the top eight exporting countries, but its wheat yield is less than 20 percent that of the EU. And the EU achieves its lofty yields through heavy doses of fertilizer, again not very sustainable. A...

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