MULTAN: The Punjab government has announced to sow paddy crop on 4.448 million acres to achieve 3.5 million tons production target.
Punjab agriculture department spokesman, in a statement, said that sowing target of paddy for Multan division was set at 171,530 acres and production target 143,490 tons.
The sowing target for Dera Ghazi Khan division was set at 152,800 acre with production assessment of 124,000 ton while sowing target in Bahawalpur division was fixed at 252,370 acre with production assessment of 211,360 ton, said agriculture spokesman Naveed Asmat Kahlon.
Kahlon said that the country’s agriculture scientists have developed high yielding rice varieties including Super Basmati and Basmati 385 with a production potential of 65 Maunds per acre while Basmati-2000 also possesses the similar potential. Shaheen Basmati has a capacity to yield 60 Maunds, while fat rice varieties including KSK-133 gives 90 Maunds per acre and Irri-6 gives 80 Maunds per acre production.
