ISLAMABAD: The Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) was informed on Thursday that wheat production in Pakistan during the current season (2023–24) grew by 5.4% as compared to the output of the same period of the last year.
The FCA met with Minister for National Food Security and Research Rana Tanveer Hussain in chair, while the relevant federal and provincial authorities also participated.
Reviewing the performance of the Rabi crops (2023–24), the committee observed that wheat output for the current season was estimated at 29.69 million tons as the crop was sown over an area of 9.6 million hectares.
The production of other crops, including onions, for the period under review, was estimated at 1.92 million tons from an area of 0.122 million hectares.
The increase in production was 3.9 percent, whereas the area decreased by 5.4% percent over the last year, whereas tomato production during the season was estimated at 627.47 thousand tons from an area of 50.9 thousand hectares.
The production of the above-mentioned commodity increased by 3.9 percent, whereas the area decreased by 0.3 percent over the last year.
Potato Production in Pakistan
Meanwhile, potato production for 2023–24 was estimated at 8.1 million tons from an area of 0.3 million hectares. The increase in production was 27.9 percent over the target assigned by the last FCA.
The FCA held detailed deliberations over the output targets for essential Kharif crops in 2024–25 and decided to fix the production target of cotton at 10.8 million bales, whereas the 8.7 million-ton production target for rice is over 3.1 million hectares of land.
The maize target was fixed at 9.3 million tons of production over 1.5 million hectares of land.
The Committee also fixed the output target of sugarcane for 2024–25 at 76.7 million tons over an area of 1.3 million hectares.
The targets for other crops such as mash, mung, and chilies were also fixed in the meeting of the high-powered committee.
