Sr# Crop Botanical name family production importance

1 wheat Tritium aestivum L. poaceae 24.21 million Tones. 3.1 % share in GDP
Area= 8.8 million hac. 14.4% value added in agriculture
Yield=50 mounds/acre Staple food for 10 billion people.30% of all
Or 120 mounds per hac cereal food.20 % of total food calories
2 rice Oryza sativa L. poaceae 6160 tones production 1% share in GDP.
2396 kg/hac yield. 4.9% value added in agriculture.
Consumed by 5.6 billion people.70% of daily
calories.sourse of foreign exchange.
3 cotton Gosypium hirsutum L. Malvaceae 11.5 million ton. 60% of foreign exchange.85% of domestic
Gosypium arboreum L Yield 725 kg per hac. oil production.1.5 million families’
Area =2.69million hac occupation.60% of total fiber. Share in GDP
is 1.4%.value added in agriculture 6.9%
4 sugarcane Saccharum oficinarum poaceae 49million tones Share in GDP is 0.9%...Value added in
Area= 1.2 million hac agriculture 4.5 %.important cash crop.86
sugar mills in Pakistan. Employment to one
million people.
Per capasta sugar consumption is 25 to 30
kg/year. It is important source of sugar.
5 maize Zea maize/mays L. poaceae 3.5 million Metric ton. Fourth largest crop. Several food products
Area =1 million hac. are made by it.20% of world food calories’
bushel corn yield 2.5 gallons of ethanol.
Corn syrup is use for sweating purpose.it is
used as fodder.
6 potato solanaceae 3100000ton Used for edible purpose as vegetable
Yield=8 to 10 ton per acre. .available in all season
30 ton per hac