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Abstract
The
province of Sindh laying between 23° 40’ and 28° 30N, and 66° 40’ and
71° 10E can be compared with Egypt since for the past 1000 years, the
two have received the gift of alluvium deposited by the rivers Indus
and Nile, respectively .Flood plains and of both attracted early
Neolithic people to experiment and develop food and feed crops.
In
Pakistan wheat cover an area of 8,306,600 hectares, while in Sindh it
cover an area of 1,120,300 hectare. For the same year wheat production
in Pakistan was 18,237,600 tons, while in Sindh its production was
2,624,900 tons Wheat in Pakistan was 2196 Kg/hectare, while in Sindh
it was 2343 Kg/hectares.
Wheat varieties HYV in the year 1999 - 00 was 2,553 yield Kg/hectare,
other wheat varieties was 981 Kg/hectare, total yield of wheat was
2491 Kgs/hectares.
Wheat in the year 1999 - 00 HYV varieties cover an area of 8,129,300
hectares, other wheat varieties cover an area of 333,700 hectare while
total area under HYV was 846,3000 hectare. For the year wheat
production of HYV was 20,751,300 tons, other variety production was
total 21,078,600 tons.
For
December 1st 2004 , overall wheat sowing in Punjab and
Sindh remained slightly below the monthly target of 60% in November
2004 with 67.2% of the area of sown I Sindh. Overall wheat sowing
remained at 54.3 % .He said provincial governments of Punjab and Sindh
were given the target of 6.2 million hectare and 0.8 million hectares,
respectively and the concerned food departments were asked to ensure
wheat sowing in 60% of the area in November.
The
official said the decision was taken in a view to achieve total
production of 20.2 million tons of wheat so that the government should
not have to import the commodity in the next fiscal year. Wheat cover
8.5 million hectare in Pakistan.
Unlike previous years, when 40% of the targeted area sued to be sown
with wheat in November in other to increase per hectare yield from
1,000 Kg to 1,300 kg, the Punjab out of the targeted area of 6.2
million, 4.16 million hectares was sown with wheat till November 27
against a little over four million hectares sown during the same
period of the last year.
Similarly in Sindh wheat sown area remained at 0.332 million hectares
till November 23, compared to 0.25 million hectares last year.
The
targeted wheat sowing area in NWFP is 0.77 million hectares, 0.34
million hectares in Balochistan and 0.1 million hectares in the Azad
Jammu and Kashmir , but the federal ministry of food and agriculture
has not yet received figures from these areas. |
