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The intensity • of cropping in Table-6.
various provinces is given below in

TABLE-6 CROPPING INTENSITY BY TENURE - BY PROVINCE

Average Intensity of Cropping (Percent)
A dministrative
u nit -- All Farms owner Farms Owner-'-cum- . · Tenant
Tenant farms Farms
- 1 2 3 4 5

Pakistan 137 135 135 144
NWFP 132 134 116 143
Punjab 141 142 138 146
Sindh 140 136 138 148
Balochistan 94 93 88 106

Crop1Hng Pattern maize and Jowar /Bajra with 4 percent
each, sugarcane with 3 percent and
:Of the total cropped area of oilseeds and orchards with 2 percent
52.~7 million acres in the country, each. The remaining 5 percent of the
wheat alone occupies 38 percent, area is reported under other crops.
followed by cotton and fodders with
13 percent each, rice with 11 The cropping pattern in various
percent, pulses with 5 percent, provinces is given below in Table 7.

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TABLE-7 CROPPING PA';I'TERN BY PROVINCE
Percent Share of Various Crops in Total Cropped Area
Adminis- ·
! ! I . ·1 I ! !
trative Wheat Rice Maize Ja~ar/ I Cotton . !Sugar- I Oil- i Pulses I Orchards I Fodder ~ Others
Unit I I I BaJra i . i cane i seeds I I I I
· i
i
i
I
2 I 3 I 4 I 5 I 6· I 7 I 8 I 9 I 10 I 11 . I 12
Pakistan . 38 11 4 4 13 3 2 5 2 13 5
,.
. NIIFP 44 2 ·28 2 4 6 1 4 8
Punjab 39 . 10 1 2 15 3 2 6 2 16 4
,.
Sindh . 29 23 8 13 5 2 2 2 9 7
,.
Balochistan 46 8 17 7 4 2 . 14
* ~ercentage Less than 0.5
•
Area Under Major crops under the crop and, unlike harvested
area, includes the area on which a
The area reported under Wheat crop has failed.
in ihe country is 20.19 million
acres, under Rice 5. 98 million The _distribution · of Wheat
7
acre~, under Cotton 6.62 million Rice, Cotton, Suga~cane and Maize
acres~ under Sugarcane 1.78 million area am6ngst various provinces is
acr~~ - and under Maize 2.04 million given below in Table-a.
acre~. This is actµal area sown

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