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BY
Kanju
Agriculture 3rd semester
Cropping pattern means the
proportion of area under various
crops at a point of time in an unit
area. Cropping pattern indicates the
yearly sequence and spatial
arrangement of crops and fallow on
a given area.
Crop rotation refers to growing
different crops in succession on a
piece of land in a specific period
of time with an objective to get
maximum profit from least
investment with impairing the
soil fertility.
Rotation Duration
Paddy-wheat, 1 Year
Maize-wheat, 1 Year
Maize-potato, 1Year
Soybean-wheat 1Year
Maize-potato-sugarcane, 2 Year
Paddy-sugarcane-wheat 2 Year
Cropping pattern may be define as:
The distribution of the area of a farm to various
crops grow in any specified area, in an agro-
ecological zones.
Varieties of wheat;
Glaxy 2013, Falaq sher 2013, Millat 2011,
NARC 2011, Lassani 2008….. etc
Sargodha
Faisalabad
Multan
Dera Ghazi KHAN
Bahawalpur
Lahore
Sahiwal
Shaikhupura
Sialkot
Rice an important food and cash crop, is
the third largest crop of Pakistan wheat
and cotton.
Planted on an area 2.5 million ha(11% of
the total cropped area).
Accounts 17% of the total cereal
production annually.
Sharing in agri-sector is 5.5% and 11% in
GDP.
Maize accounts for 4.8% of the total cropped area.
Varieties of Maize;
Yousafwala Hybrid,
Pearl and MMRI-Yellow,
Amylomaize corn,
Flint corn etc.
Potato is grown on about 111,000 ha
distributed agro-ecological zones.