This document provides statistics about agriculture in Pakistan and the province of Punjab. It shows that Punjab produces 70% of Pakistan's national agricultural output and accounts for 50.9 million acres of Pakistan's total agricultural area of 196.7 million acres. It also provides data on seed companies operating in Punjab, including 635 private seed companies and 5 multi-national companies. Additionally, it lists the crop requirements, public sector supply, private sector supply, and imported supply for major crops in Punjab.

1. DR MUHAMMAD ANJUM ALI
DGA (EXT&AR) PUNJAB

2. Province
GeographicalArea
TotalReportedArea
ForestArea
Notavailablefor
cultivation
Culturablewaste
Cultivatedarea
CurrentFallow
NewAreaSown
Areasownmorethan
once
TotalCroppedArea
Pakistan
196.
7
141.3 10.4 58.1 19.32 52.91 13.91 39.34 18.48 57.82
Punjab
50.9 43.3 1.28 7.34 3.83 30.79 3.71 27.43 15.15 42.58
(Million Acres)
70% of national agricultural output is from Punjab

4. 1. Seed (Registration ) Rules, 1987
2. Procedures, Directions and Seed Standards, 1988

5. Federal Seed (Amendment) Act 2015 published in gazette on 29th July 201

8. Type Punjab Sindh KPK GB Total
Private
National
631 97 24 8 759
Multi
National*
5 - - - 5
Total 635 97 24 8 764
*Monsanto, Pioneer, Bayer, ICI and
Syngenta

9. Crop
Require
ments
Public
%age
Private
%age
Imported
%age
Total
Availability
Total%
age
Wheat 1,085,400 91,461 8.43
259,95
5
24.0 0 0.00
351,41
6
32.38
Cotton 40,000 4,100 10.25 30,455 76.1 0 0.00 34,555 86.39
Rice 42,480 4,372 10.29 37,955 89.3 3,897 9.17 46,224 108.8
Maize 31,914 333 1.04 3541 11.1 14,344 44.95 18,218 57.08
Pulses 47,496 17 0.04 772 1.6 0 0.00 789 1.66
Oil
Seed
10,582 43 0.41 83 0.8 1,661 15.70 1,787 16.89
V/table 5,870 13 0.22 53 0.9 5,196 88.51 5262 89.0
Fodder 40,138 12 0.03 7 0.0 27,741 69.11 27,760 69.16
Potato 372,725 0 0.00 0 0.0 8,733 2.34 8,733 2.34
TOTAL
1,675,80
97,047 5.79
3,24,69
19.4 61,572 3.67 483,311 28.84
Metric Tons