Vol. 10, Issue 4 (2021)

Author(s):
Piyush Kumar Singh, VN Rai, Neeraj Singh, Sunil Kumar and Vishva Deepak Chaturvedi

Abstract:
India is an important centre of wheat cultivation. The wheat is cultivated on the largest areas in India. wheat is the major crop of Uttar Pradesh, which covers about 32.5 per cent area of total gross-cropped area in Uttar Pradesh. The present study mainly deals with the effect on weather variables. The study has been undertaken for wheat crop in the district Jaunpur, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. The present study is formulated to determine the individual effect of weather variables on wheat yield. On the basis of R2, we found that individually Maximum Temperature is more important with 62.7 followed by sunshine (hr.), rainfall, wind velocity and Minimum Temperature with 61.3, 52.0, 30.4 and 27.9 respectively.