Researchers are telling farmers that the world's wheat yields are expected decline in the near future and the world also stands to lose 6% of its wheat crop for every degree Celsius.

A study recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change tells that how expected wheat loss could total up to one fourth of the annual global wheat trade.

“The simulations with the multi-crop models showed that warming is already slowing yield gains, despite observed yield increases in the past, at a majority of wheat-growing locations across the globe”, researcher Senthold Asseng, at the University of Florida, explained in a statement.

These latest outcomes are the results of an international polling of models and efforts that is part of the global Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP). Climatologists and agricultural experts combined resources and it was found that they might predict the impact of warmer temperatures on wheat yield.

It was found that the world is in the middle of a very clear warming trend. More record breaking hot years and fewer cold years within the last few decades have been caused because of elevated carbon levels and natural temperature anomalies.

Year 2014 was recently confirmed as the hottest year ever recorded and scientific modeling has indicated that a record breaking cold year has not been seen over a century.

It has been earlier found that climate change will possibly create farmland that will be more useable, which is the good news for the agricultural world and it has also been indicated that all the crops normally grown on these lands would begin experiencing fewer harvests. The Middle East and Africa are already facing crop yield declines. For example, India has generated one million metric tons more wheat in 2013 compared to 2014.

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