Water-productive
wheat with improved
grain quality: Lowering risk, saving scarce
moisture, improving incomes
Farmers on nearly half the developing
world’s wheat area grow their crops with less
than 600 mm of rainfall annually and often suffer from
a lack or irregular supply of water. In intensively
cropped, irrigated wheat areas, water for agriculture
is fast becoming scarce. CIMMYT is developing a product
to benefit farmers in both settings: more efficient,
productive wheat varieties that use less water, are
broadly adapted, resist key pests and pathogens, and
have improved, consumer-oriented grain quality traits.
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