A woman harvests wheat on the outskirts of Jammu. An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia's war in Ukraine.
A farmer harvests wheat on the outskirts of Jammu.
A farmer harvests wheat on the outskirts of Jammu.
A farmer carries wheat crop after harvested on the outskirts of Jammu.
A farmer carries wheat crop harvested from a field on the outskirts of Jammu.
A woman sorts wheat harvested on the outskirts of Jammu. Climate change has made India’s heat wave hotter, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London. She said that before human activities increased global temperatures, heat waves like this year's would have struck India once in about half a century.
In thi file photo, a laborer seals sacks filled with wheat in Gurdaspur. India is in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave that is stunting wheat production. Lower yields likely mean the government will buy less wheat for its reserves this year than last. Since the pandemic struck, demand has surged under new schemes that have strained India's vast buffers against hunger.
