Cereals

Wheat is the world's largest crop, planted on some 225 million hectares. With bread and pasta as staples in Western diets and increasing in popularity elsewhere, it is vital to have a plentiful supply as well as a wide range of top-quality varieties with different taste and milling characteristics. And, as consumption in emerging markets increases due to changing diets, meeting the additional demand means that the average global yield of three tons per hectare must rise. There is no doubt about the potential: growers in some Western European countries already achieve more than three times this figure