Active research in enhancing the productivity and endproduct quality and promotion of triticale is underway in more than thirty countries. Farmers in every part of the world have adopted new techniques and accepted new crops that are considered profitable and consistent with their circumstances. The first factors, which favored farmers' adoption of triticale, were its superior performance under unfavorable production conditions including acidic soils, severe disease or insect pressures, or drought. Second, it had the ability to produce higher biomass and high regrowth capacity after grazing and ability to grow better under relatively cool temperatures, making it an excellent forage crop. Third, and equally important, was the usefulness of triticale as a feed grain mainly for monogastric animals.
Considerable effort is underway to improve the milling and baking qualities of triticale.
Millers and markets find it difficult to accept a new crop because of the additional investments involved in modifying the milling procedure or adding new holding facilities. However, when the world is faced with the problem of slowing productivity of established crops like wheat, maize, and rice and the population keeps growing at its high rate, options like triticale to enhance sustainable production will continue to be important in feeding the world population.