ISLAMABAD: The research work in wheat has enabled the growers to increase their yield from 862kg per hectare in 1965 to 2,800 kilograms in 2015.
This was stated by Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan, while inaugurating the annual wheat planning and wheat productivity enhancement programme (WPEP) meeting at National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC).
The minister said that research in wheat during the last four decades has enabled farmers to increase their per hector yield by over 224%. He said that this was the legacy of those Pakistani researchers who selected the `Mexi-Pak’ variety which had become the first most widely grown wheat variety of the famous green revolution. He said that wheat has contributed 10% to the value-added in agriculture and 2.1% to GDP.
