Guidelines to keep Rabi crops safe amid rain, windstorm forecast.

MULTAN: Agriculture spokesman has advised farmers to keep paying attention to weather forecast aired via Radio and television and immediately stop wheat cultivation in case of forecast of rain or windstorm and cover the harvested crop with a tarpaulin or sheet.

In a statement issued here Monday, the spokesman said that after rain the wet wheat stock be left exposed before sunlight to let it dry.

He said that more than expected rains were received this year while temperature also remained low and advised farmers to start harvesting their wheat crop only when it attained the maturity.

Farmers should prepare smaller heaps of harvested wheat and fasten them in a way that the fruit remains upward. Farmers should dig some soil around the field for water drainage...