Dual-purpose wheat technology: a tool for ensuring food security and livestock sustainability in cereal-based cropping pattern. Issue 13 (10th November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Munsif, Fazal; Arif, Muhammad; Khan, Aziz; Akhtar, Kashif; Ali, Kawsar; Vincevica-Gaile, Zane; Rasul, Fahd; Iqbal, Anas; Fahad, Shah; Burlakovs, Juris; Jahangir, Muhammad; Shah, Tariq; Ullah, Ubaid; Wei, Fan
• Is Part Of: Archives of agronomy and soil science. Volume 67:Issue 13(2021)
• Page Start: 1889
• Page End: 1900
• Publication Date: 2021-11-10
• Subjects: Wheat cultivation -- planting dates -- cereal cultivars -- yield and yield components; Horticulture -- Periodicals; Soils -- Periodicals; 630.5
• DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2020.1817901
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0365-0340

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Wheat cultivation under a dual-purpose (DP) system holds great potential to provide additional fodder for livestock with marginal grain reduction. This study explores the potential of wheat as a DP crop for improving both, forage and grain cropping system by finding out optimal sowing dates and cultivars suitable for DP cropping. Field experiments with four cultivars (Saleem-2000, Bathoor-2007, Fakhre Sarhad-99 (FS-99) and Siran-2008), three sowing dates (October 15, October 30 and November 15) and two cutting treatments (cut and no-cut) determines the effects on yield and physiology of wheat. Wheat sown either in mid or end of October resulted in 11 and 8% increase in grain yield while 13 and 9% in biological yield over mid November sowing, respectively. This increase in yield was due to higher grain spike −1, chlorophyll content, transpiration rate and relative water content. The cultivars Siran-2008 and Saleem-2000 had higher biological and grain yields than other cultivars across cutting and sowing dates treatments. Biological and grain yields were reduced by 4% and 3%, respectively under the DP wheat compared with no-cut treatment, but grains N content was unaffected. Conclusively, DP wheat system (cut treatment) had higher profitability (11.2%) than wheat crop sown only for grain purposes.