The Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University has signed an agreement with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) for evaluation of germ plasm. The University's Research Director R. P. Narwal said on Wednesday that agricultural production had been severely affected due to inadequate irrigational resources and changing climatic conditions. “It is estimated that the demand for foodgrains would increase by another 30 to 35 per cent by 2020 which has to be managed from the depleting natural resources like water and shrinking land for agricultural activities,” he added. Wheat is the country's main crop and strenuous efforts are being made to increase its production even in the adverse atmospheric conditions of rising temperatures. Vice-Chancellor K.S. Khokhar disclosed that the University would evaluate the germ plasm lying in the gene bank of NBPGR so that new variety of wheat could be developed which “was cultivable in short time, had resistance to rising temperature and had high productivity”.