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ISLAMABAD: Wheat crop cultivation, a major cash crop of the season used as staple food in the country, has registered positive growth during the sowing season of 2016-17 as compared to last year. Wheat cultivation in Punjab witnessed about 0.6% increase whereas crop sowing in Sindh registered about a 0.2% increase compared with last season, said Food Security Commissioner in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Dr Imtiaz Ahmad Gopnag. He said the wheat crop had been cultivated over 6,677,000 hectares in Punjab, showing an increase of 0.6% compared to last year. While in Sindh, the crop has been cultivated over 1,157 thousand hectares, showing positive growth in crop sowing compared to last year, he added. The cash crop has been cultivated over 8,793,000 hectares across the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2017.
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