{"id":28472,"date":"2018-10-24T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28472"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:06:00","slug":"alternative-cereals-can-save-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/alternative-cereals-can-save-water\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alternative cereals can save water\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/alternative-cereals-can-save-water\/article24354556.ece\">\u2018Alternative cereals can save water\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to a recent study, a shift from rice and wheat cultivation to cultivation \u2018alternative cereals,\u2019 such as maize, sorghum, and millet, could reduce the demand for irrigation water in India by 33%.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The study was conducted by researchers from US based Earth Institute, Columbia University and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.<\/li>\n<li>For the analysis, water and cereal-production data from 1996-2009 was used<\/li>\n<li>As actual water consumption data was unavailable, proxy \u2014 Crop Water Requirement (CWR) was used. It is product of water required by crop and harvested area.<\/li>\n<li>Major Highlights of the Study:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The combined production of alternative cereals was larger than that of wheat in the 1960s, but their relative contribution to cereal supply declined steadily during the period<\/li>\n<li>These alternative cereals also disproportionately account for supply of protein, iron, and zinc among Kharif crops.<\/li>\n<li>Total CWR demand for Indian cereal production increased from 482 to 632 Km<sup>3<\/sup> during the period<\/li>\n<li>Rice is the least water-efficient cereal when it came to producing nutrients, and was the main driver in increasing irrigation stresses.<\/li>\n<li>The report suggests that replacing rice cultivation by maize, finger millet, pearl millet, or sorghum, could save irrigation and improving production of nutrients such as iron by 27% and zinc by 13%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Alternative cereals can save water\u2019 News: According to a recent study, a shift from rice and wheat cultivation to cultivation \u2018alternative cereals,\u2019 such as maize, sorghum, and millet, could reduce the demand for irrigation water in India by 33%. Important Facts: The study was conducted by researchers from US based Earth Institute, Columbia University and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/alternative-cereals-can-save-water\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Alternative cereals can save water\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704686174},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}