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Interested to know about Pakistan’s wheat agriculture? Then you have clicked to the right place as this page by Economyofpakistan entirely deals with the several facts about wheat agriculture in Pakistan. Even though Pakistan’s population is rapidly increasing, still the country is preponderantly an agricultural country. Pakistan has a total land area of 79.61 million hectares, of which 20.3 million hectare is under cultivation of crops. From the cultivated area, nearly 70 percent is irrigated and is mainly rainfed. Pakistan’s agriculture accounts for nearly 30 percent of the country’s GDP and employs approximately 50 percent of entire labor force that enables the country to earn about 70 percent of the country’s export revenue. Keep scrolling to know more about the wheat cultivation in Pakistan.
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Wheat is the staple food of the Pakistani people and is thus, the most important food grain crop. The other main food grain crops are maize, pulses and rice. Average wheat yield in Pakistan has been stagnant for the last eight years. But the increase in population widened the gap between demand and supply of wheat. So, to meet the rising demand, Pakistan must increase wheat production proportionally and should cut down its wheat exports. Recently, Pakistan declared that it would not be possible for them to sell wheat to India since there is only a marginal surplus to be used as strategic reserves.
This crisis situation calls for increasing production of wheat so to ensure food security to its people. The best option is to increase yield per acre. This trouble with agriculture in Pakistan took place due to the lack of creativity in research work. For the last few decades, the researchers failed to come up with any high-yielding seed and the growers are sowing the old nineties seeds. This calls for a wheat research program where scientists should make efforts to make developments and genetic improvements of new varieties of wheat seeds. For knowing more about agriculture and livestock in Pakistan’s economy, feel free to browse the pages in our site www.economyofpakistan.com
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