Page 52 - 1990(3) Cesus Of Agriculture, provience report-Punjab

TABLE-8 AREA UNDER WHEAT, RICE, COTTON, SUGARCANE AND MAIZE-BY PROVINCE
(Area in Million Acres)

A dminis- Wheat - Rice Cotton Sugarcane Maize
t rative
u nit Area_· Per- - Area Per- Area Per- Area Per- Area Per
cent cent cent cent cent
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1 2 3 - 4 5 6 7~ 8 9 10 11
Pakistan 20.19 100 , 5.98 100 6. 62 100 1. 78 100 2.04 100
NWFP 2.42 12 · 0. 13-. 2 * # 0.22 12 _1. 53 75
Punjab 13.60 _ -~6.8 ·• ,3 .... 34 56 5.36 81 1.04 59- -0. 46 22
Sindh 2.92' 14 2.30 39 1.26 19 0.51 29 0.03 2
Balochistan 1.25 6 . 0. 21 3 * # 0.02 1

* Less ~han O.OOS _Mjllion Acres. # Less than 0.5 Percent
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Use of Fei-tilizer·s·, Manures. farms have . not reported use _ of
and Insecticides .fertilizers or manures.

out o:( ,a total of 5.07 million . The use of i11se_cticid.es· has
farms in the, country, 2. 49 million been reported by 1. 28 million farms,
(49%) report uge of only fertili~ers representing 25 percent of 'the total
. while another 1. 44 million farms farms in the country.
(28%) report u~e of both fertiliz~ri
and manures~ The use of manures only . · .. The_ 'l.lse of ferti-liz,ers, man.ures
has been -reporte d by O. 28 . million and - , - ins~cticides . in -various
(6%) far~s. Th~ r~maining 17 ~ercent provinces is given ,.below in Tab.le 9.
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TABLE-9 USE OF FERTILIZERS, MANURES AND INSECTICI'DES , .. BY PROVINC-E '
(Number in Million) - ,; .
-- -Farms Reporting Use of
All .·
-A dmini s trative Farms Fertilizers Fertilizers Manures ' Insecticicfes
.. u nit and Manures· , Only ,_ Only
,
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Numb_er Percent.· Number Percent Number Percent _Number Percent
, ,..
,. , o f All of All:' · < of All of All
Farms Farms Farms Far111'ss
~-=·-
·-,,,,
1 ,- 2 3 4, 5 6 7 8 9 lP
, , '•--
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,·- l .-•·•
Pakistan 5.07 . ;t . ,44 28 2.49 49 0.28 6 ' 1.28 >?5
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NWFP 1.07 o,, 63 . . - 58 0;1 7 16 0.14 13 0.09 9
Punjab 2.96 0.71 24 1.70 58 0.10 4 0.96 s32
Sindh 0.80 0.07 . 9 . 0.59 73 # * 0.19 -~ 3
Baloch i stan 0.24 Q.03 13 0 . 0 3 12 0.03 13 0.04 ·:<17
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* Pe r tentag e Less th~n , 0 .5 -# Numbe r Les.s than 0. 005 Million

Use o f Tractor 'and for cultivation of land, covering an
Draug htAn-imal area of -23.58 million acres oi 52
~erceni of the total area of these
Out- ot'a tot~l Jf 4~93 million farms. There are another 1.13
farms reporting so~e Cultivated area million farms (23%) reporting use of
2.7i million (56%) both tractors and - animals for
in the ~ountry 1
have reported use of tractor only cultivation, covering an area of

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