A new environmental study has claimed that global wheat production might get affected due to the impacts of climate change.

The study claimed that one-quarter of the world's wheat production will be lost to extreme weather conditions if necessary steps are not taken to address the issue.Researchers at Kansas State University said that the wheat production is expected to fall 6 per cent for each degree Celsius rise in global temperature if required steps are not taken.

Researcher Vara Prasad said in a statement that, “It's pretty severe. The projected effect of climate change on wheat is more than what has been forecast. That's challenging because the world will have to at least double our food supply in the next 30 years if we're going to feed 9.6 billion people.”

Data showed that wheat harvest was recorded at 701 million tons during 2012-2013 across the world. The researchers said that the rising temperature will result in 42 million tons less produced wheat, which is about a fourth of the current level ofwheat production. The team studied 30 wheat crop models against field experiments from around the world. They found that effects from climate change and its increasing temperatures on wheat will be more significant than expected.