| India is today the second largest wheat producer in the whole world. Various studies and researches show that wheat and wheat flour play and increasingly important role in the management of India’s food economy. Major wheat growing states in India are Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Bihar. All of north is replenished with wheat cultivation. Wheat has a narrow geographic land base of production as compared to rice or pulses. Wheat is a temperate crop requiring low temperatures and most of the country is tropical. |
