Wheat was a nontraditional crop in this country up to early seventies. No emphasis was given to introduce wheat in this area at that time. However, two Mexican varieties Sonora 64 and Penjamo 62 were first tested in this environment in 1965. The spectacular performance of these two varieties encouraged the wheat scientists to introduce wheat in this part. Since independence in 1971, Bangladesh became very much dependent on wheat imports during this period. A dietary change has also taken place among the people so that wheat was becoming a desired food supplement to rice. Maximum wheat production so far achieved was 1.9 million tons from 0.85 million hectares. However, after that wheat both wheat area and production became steadily started decreasing due to huge crop competition in winter and low price support for wheat.
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