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It is a staple food crop of Pakistan, and accounts for nearly 36 per cent of the total cropped area, 30 percent of the value added by major crops and 76 per cent of the total production of food grains. Pakistan made an important breakthrough in 2000 by not only achieving self-sufficiency in wheat production, but by also being able to become a wheat exporting country Wheat industry is a third largest industry of Pakistan. Among the wheat producing country, Pakistan stands at 10th place in terms of area (8.5 million hectares) and 59th in terms of yield (21.0 m ton) annually. It occupies a supreme position in the food grains of Pakistan; it covers 66% of the total area under food grains and contributes 74% of the total food grain production. Wheat alone contributes 13.8% to the value added in agriculture and 3.4% towards Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Pakistan. The province of Punjab grows the majority of Pakistani wheat, producing 72 percent of the nations total supply. The next largest wheat-producing province is Sindh, which produces 17 percent of the total wheat supply. Winter wheat planting begins around the first of October and run through mid-December. Harvest begins in April and is usually completed in mid-June.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The government ought to review its demand-supply position around September-October and if needed it ought to place order for import before the high season starts. Policies can produce lasting and satisfactory results only, if they are easily implemented, and the legitimate interests of all stakeholders are recognized and catered for. The flour mills should be facilitated to build storage facilities in order to prevent wheat stealing and wastage on the way moving wheat from one place to another. If as a social decision, farmers need to be subsidized (as is the case in many other developed countries), it ought to be done in the form of items like crop insurance, tax free pesticide supply, and provision of cheaper and better seeds to increase yields etc. The government should emphasize on any one problem either on increasing population or on stagnant production. For more productivity in wheat crop the requirements are: To ensure food security Export the surplus wheat crop Modern wheat storage methods
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SUBMITTED BY
Faizan Javed, Sameer Mateen, Umair Javed khan Syed Imran Ahmed, Abdus Samad Iqbal
SUBMITTED
Miss Urooj