22m metric-ton wheat target set current year.

FAISALABAD -- Director General Agriculture (Extension and Adoptive Research) Punjab, Dr Anjum Ali said on Thursday that 16.5 million acres of land would be brought under wheat crop cultivation across the Punjab province this year for getting 22.2 million metric tons of production.

Addressing a Kissan convention, jointly organised by the Agriculture Department and a private fertilizer company here, he said the wheat growers should complete cultivation over maximum land by Nov 20 to enhance average per acre production from 31 to 40 maunds. He said that the wheat support price had been increased over Rs 3,000 per maund to make it a cash crop and attract farmers to cultivate it on maximum area of land.

He urged farmers to speed up cultivation of wheat crop in paddy areas to bring more and more land under wheat crop cultivation. He said that the Agriculture field staff, along with students of Agriculture University, were busy providing guidance to...

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