Climate Change May Have Good Impact on Wheat, Scientists Claim

Thomas Lumpkin, director general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) said during the 2012 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) Technical Workshop in China that climate change may affect positively some of the farming regions of the world.

While production in some regions, such as India and Mexico, is predicted to be negatively affected by climate change, Lumpkin said that in other regions such as northern China, production may benefit from warmer winters. Similarly, in southwestern China, warmer temperatures have extended growing seasons. Scientists had warned, however, that these benefits may be offset by other impacts resulting from climate change, such as an increase in crop disease.

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