Recent spell of light rains would bring positive impact on Rabi crops including wheat, barley, mustard, lental, grams and other minor crop fruit and vegetables cultivated over large areas of the country to fulfil the domestic consumption of the food.
Talking to APP here yesterday, Member of Crops Sciences in Pakistan
Agriculture Research Council, Dr. Shahid Masood said that early sowing wheat was passing through the booting stage and it required a shower in this state as the recent rains proved blessings for the crop.
There was a sufficient gap between first rainfall and recent spell of rains which are likely to continue till today evening and farmers can put fertilisers on their fields, he added.
He further informed that the rains were also beneficial for the late sowed crop which was cultivated by December and it was on five-leaves stage or pre-booting stage and it required water for further nourishment.
Meanwhile, Agriculture Policy Development Institute (API) chief
Abdul Rauf Chaudhry said that current spell of rains will bring positive impact on wheat crop as it was time to water the fields because the wheat crops had started sprouting.
Current spell of rains would bring positive affect on Rabbi crops particularly major food crops of the season including wheat and different pulses sown over a vast area in the country.
He said that wheat sowing position was quite encouraging as compared to the last year’s sowing because of early and timely rainfall during the start of the Rabbi crop season October and November.
He said that wheat sowing also had got momentum and farmers were encouraged to cultivate more wheat due to government decision for enhancing wheat support price from Rs 1050 per 40 kg to Rs 1200 per 40 kg.
The API head further informed that sufficient availability of other inputs like fertilisers, water for irrigation and seeds as compared to the last year will also help to enhance area under wheat sowing.
Abdul Rauf said that recent spell of rains would be beneficial for other minor crops including fruit, vegetables and pulses grown over a vast area in the country.
