SEASON

TIMING

SOIL

TEMP.

PRECIPITATION

Well drained
silty loamy
soil, alluvial,
volcanic,
chernozem
soil
Fertile silt at
top and
retentive
subsoil

10C21C

Loamy soil
with large
storage
capacity,
alluvial soil
e.g. Indus

21C27C

Vegetative
growth needs
rainfall while
sunny condition
requires at
harvest
Humid climate
suitable
45 inches
Rainfall during
vegetative
growth of 8
weeks, in
Pakistan only
10-20 inches
Warm and Moist
climate, heavy
rainfall during
early pollination
periodKashmir,KPK
rain fed; Punjab
irrigated

WHEAT

Rabi crop

Sown:
Oct-Dec,
Harveste
d: AprilMay

RICE

Kharif
crop

25 April20 May

MAIZE

Kharif
crop
Spring
crop
in
centra
l
Punjab

Sprin
g
crop:
Feb-Mar
Kharif
crop:
julyAug

21C38C

SEED
RATE
(per acre
yield)
50-70kg

PER
HECTARE
YIELD

LOCATION

2700kg

1. Trans-Indus
Plain
2. UIP
3. LIP

Basmati:
4-5kg
IRRI:
8-10 kg

2100kg

1. North
Eastern
Punjab
(Basmati
Rice)
2. Sindh (IRRI)

12-18 kg

1800kg

1. Primarily a
crop of
northern
region (KPK 50
PRODUCTION)
2.Central
Punjab

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SEASON

TIMING

SOIL

TEMP.

15.5C 200 frost-free

-25C
sunny days, 3048 inches rain, in
PAK only 10
inches
18CHot and humid
30C
weather

COTTON

Kharif
crop

MarchJune

Deep friable
soil, alluvial,
lava fed land

SUGARCAN
E

Kharif
crop

Deep

Spring:
feb-

PRECIPITATION

SEED
RATE
(per acre
yield)
10-14 kg

PER
HECTARE
YIELD

LOCATION

700kg

35-40
thousan

53 tons
(Egypt

1. South and
south east
Punjab
2. Western
Sindh
1. TIP
2. UIP

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march
Autum
n:
Septembe
r
Nursery
T: Dec-Feb

Well drained,
loamy soil,
alluvial,
sandy

10C26C

Moderate climate
Dry and moist
climate not
suitable

d pieces
of cane
stems
(eye)

100
tons )

3. LIP

3 grams

1900kg

1. KPK (75%)
2. Punjab
(22%)
3. Balochistan
(3.3%)