The presentation is about the status of crop and it's importance. The factors of low production also discuss here to point out them and apprise to scientist to solve these factors. These will be helpful for both the students and scientist about the sesame crop.

1. Anas Ur Rehman Sheikh
MSc.(Hons) 3rd Semester
Supervisor: Dr. Humera Razzaq
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TOPIC:
CURRENT STATUS
OF SESAME CROP
AND FACTORS
AFFECTING ITS
YIELD IN
PAKISTAN.

2. Road Map:
• Introduction.
• Status of crop in world.
• Status of crop in Pakistan.
• Factors of affecting.
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3. Introduction:
• Family: (Zhang et al., 2013)
Pedaliaceae.
• Nature of pollination
Self pollinated
• Fruiting structure:
Pods/capsules (2.5-8 cm in length)
• Diversity(Kobayashi et al. (1990))
36 species
• Centre of origin:
2 origin are reported 3

4. • Ranks sixth (Olowe, 2004)
• World production in
2017.(FAO,2017)
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5. 18%
18%
17%
13%
8%
8%
5%
5%
4% 4%
Top Producing Countries of Sesame (2016-17)
In Tonns
FAO. STAT, 2017
United Republic of Tanzania
Myanmar
India
Sudan
China
China, mainland
Ethiopia
South Sudan
Burkina Faso
Chad
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6. Top Exporting Countries in 2017:
OEC Data Source, 2017
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7. Greece 22.0%
Netherland
18.0%
Germany 17.0%
Poland 16.0%
France 14.5%
United Kingdom 12%
Others 5%
Main European importers for sesame seeds
Source: Eurostat 2018
Spain 9%
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8. • Only exporting crop:
It’s the only exporting oil seed crop which has been exporting in
Pakistan. In 2001-2002 almost 20 million dollars revenue generated
exported 46000 kilo grams of sesame.
• Total area and production (Status paper oil seed crops).
• 70 thousand hec
• 34 thousand tonns
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Status of sesame in Pakistan

9. 141.1
165.32
169.27
162.35
156.67
17.79
17.79
21.25
17.3
26.93
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
16.06
18.53
18.53
14.33
13.84
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
Provincial wise area of Pakistan
Balochistan KPK Sindh Punjab Source: Agriculture Marketing
Information Service
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10. 21.8
24.5
25.8
24.8
25.5
3.2
3.4
3.8
3.2
4.8
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
4
4.6
4.6
3.7
3.7
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
Province wise Production
Balochistan KPK Sindh Punjab
Production '000' Tonnes
Agriculture Marketing Information
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11. Areas for Sesame in Pakistan:
Attock
Chakwal
Bhawalnagar
DG Khan
Mardan
Kohat
Karak
D.I Khan
Naushero
Feroze
Nawab Shah
Dadu
Sibi
Jhal
Magsi
Turbat
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12. Factors for low yield:
• Lack of improved high yielding varieties.
• Cultivation on marginal lands.
• Machinery
• Poor crop management.
• Policy Constraints
• Shattering losses.
• Phyllody disease.
• Non-availability of quality seed
• Low support prices
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13. • Lack of improved high yielding varieties:
Approved verities are no present.
• Cultivation on marginal lands:
Not grow on proper cultivated lands
• Lack of Machinery:
Machinery are not available for harvesting
• Poor crop management:
Fertilizers and insecticides not giving properly on recommended values.
• Policy constraints:
As government gave subsidy policies on sunflower and canola, but in sesame there were no
policy for subsidy in sesame
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14. Shattering:
• Heavy loss
Almost 70% losses reported due to
shattering in field.
• Causes
It cause splitting of pods from the
tips of pods and seed shatter in the
field.
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15. Damages of Phyllody:
Diseased
Healthy
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16. Cont.…..
• Non availability of good seeds:
No import seed
No potential buyer
• Low support prices
Non priority.
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17. Reference:
• Abera, H . 2009. Analysis of Sesame production, Supply, Demand and Marketing Issues
in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Commodity Exc. Auth. Addis Abeba.
• Amjad,M.2013-14. Status paper Oilseed crops of Pakistan . PARC.
• Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.2015. FAOSTAT Database
(http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E).
• Food and Agricultural Organization. FAOSTAT. 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
• GOP. 2016. Economic survey of Pakistan, Finance and Economic Affairs Division,
Islamabad. Pakistan.
• GOP. Sesame average yield.
http://www.amis.pk/Agristatistics/Data/HTML%20Final/Sesamum/Production.html.2018.
• Kobayashi, T., Kinoshita, M., Hattori, S., Ogawa, T., Tsuboi, Y., Ishida, M .1990.
Development of the sesame metallic fu`el performance code. Nucl. Technol.89:183–193.
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18. • Olowe, V. 2004. Production potential for sesame in the forest-savanna transition zone of south west
Nigeria. Muarik Bulletin.7: 20-29.
• Zhang, H., Miao, H., Wang, L., Qu, L., Liu, H., Wang, Q., and Yue, M. 2013. Genome sequencing
of the important oilseed crop Sesamum indicum L. Genome Biol: 14:401-406.
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