Islamabad
Wheat sowing in Punjab and Balochistan provinces during Rabi Season 2020-21 increased by 2 percent and 1 percent respectively as compared the cultivation of corresponding period of last year.
However, according the initial estimates of Provincial Crop Reporting Services, grains sowing in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa decreased by 1 percent and 3 percent respectively. The wheat sowing has been completed over 96.94 percent of the set targets in Punjab which is the largest grain producing province of the country, said Food Security Commissioner in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research Dr Imtiaz Ahmad Gopang.
While talking to APP here on Wednesday, he said that in Punjab, wheat cultivation had been completed over 6.359 million hectares as against the set targets of 6.560 million hectares.—APP
