SARGODHA: About 21 million metric ton citrus is being produced from over 450,000 acres of land in the province.
This was revealed by Secretary Agriculture Sheharyar Sultan while addressing the participants of a meeting during his visit here at Citrus Research Institute.
He said that out of the total production, district Sargodha was producing almost 1.1 million metric ton from over 224,000 acres. He said that agriculture was backbone of the country’s economy and the government was taking steps to bring improvement in this sector and making the farmers prosper.
It was disclosed in the meeting that Kinnow field was being cultivated at over 154,000 hectare of land which was almost 84pc of the whole citrus fields while the kinnow production was over 1,876,000 metric tons.
