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Going against the grain: How farmers in Asia, Australia are beating the heat with new crop varieties
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Punjab farmer Jaspreet Singh Gill planted climate-resilient wheat variety PBW 826 in November 2023. He recorded a higher yield in 2024.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF JASPREET SINGH GILL
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NEW DELHI - Crops have always been at the mercy of the weather. But climate change is making farming even more of a lottery, with increasingly extreme weather damaging crops, cutting yields and slashing farmers’ incomes.
And increasingly hot and dry weather is especially harmful, affecting the ability of crops such as wheat to grow.
