Wheat breeders have achieved significant results over the last
fifty years in research on mankind's one of the most important
crops. Classical genetic and breeding methods, far broader
international cooperation than was experienced in earlier periods,
and improvements in agronomic techniques have led to previously
unimaginable development in the utilisation of wheat for human
consumption. The contribution of wheat researchers is particularly
noteworthy since these results have been achieved at a time when
the world population has grown extremely dynamically. Despite this
demographic explosion, of a proportion never previously
experienced, thousands of millions of people have been saved from
starvation, thus avoiding unpredictable social consequences and
situations irreconcilable with human dignity. Despite these
developments in many regions of the world food supplies are still
uncertain and the increase in the world's wheat production has not
kept pace with the population increase during the last decade. Due
to the evils of civilisation and the pollution of the environment
there is a constant decline in the per capita area of land suitable
for agricultural production. Based on population estimates for
2030, the present wheat yield of around 600 million tonnes will
have to be increased to almost 1000 million tonnes if food supplies
are to be maintained at the present level.
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