Wheat management practices and factors of yield decline in the Punjab province of Pakistan
2010
Aujla, K.M. (Technology Transfer Inst., AARI, Faisalabad (Pakistan)) | Taj, S. (Technology Transfer Inst., AARI, Faisalabad (Pakistan)) | Mahmood, K. (Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad (Pakistan)) | Akmal, N.
Wheat is the main staple diet of the people of Pakistan. There e different views for wheat yield decline and crisis in the country during 2007-08. To assess the wheat situation and compare wheat production practices to identify the major factors of yield decline, a national level field survey was conducted during June 2008 by Social Sciences Division, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council through its satellite institutes in the provinces. Total 238 wheat growers were purposively selected from different cropping zones of the Punjab province as sample of the national survey. The survey results reveal that decline wheat area, the incidence of frost/cold spells, shortage of irrigation water over normal supplies, imbalanced use of fertilizers particularly of DAP fertilizer below recommended doses, higher prices of inputs such as seed, fertilizer, diesel, electricity and less wheat prices during 2006-07 and late announcement of the minimum guaranteed wheat price for 2007-08.
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