Pakistan To Experience Wheat Surplus This Year, All Previous Records Expected To Be Broken Pakistan has had to import more than two million tons of wh

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Pakistan To Experience Wheat Surplus This Year, All Previous Records Expected To Be Broken
Pakistan has had to import more than two million tons of wheat over the past two years to make up for the supply shortage due to low harvest outputs.
By Omair Kamran Last updated Apr 14, 2021
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Pakistan will most likely experience an upsurge in wheat production this year.

Many experts familiar with the industry are projecting that Pakistan will surpass the previous records by a substantial margin.

According to the survey, Pakistan may harvest over 28.75 million tons of wheat this year.
If realized, this amount is likely to exceed the previously recorded highest harvest of 26.67 million tons in 2016-17.
Pakistan has had to import more than two million tons of wheat over the past two years to make up for the supply shortage due to low harvest outputs.
If the estimated output is realized, it may also fulfill the local demand and eliminate the need for wheat imports, at least not in substantial quantities.

On the other hand, the federal government’s estimations of the wheat output are slightly less than the 2016-17 levels.
While reviewing the rabi crops’ performance (2020/21) last week, the Federal Committee on Agriculture estimated that the wheat production would remain at 26.04 million tons while showing an increase of 1.7% over the last year.
The report disclosed that the total production could increase with even a slight increase in acre yield.
A forecast of this was provided by an official of the Punjab Agriculture Department.
The official told the media thatlocal production had jumped around 600,000 tons with an increase of one maund per acre if the present area under cultivation is considered.

Against the official forecasts of approximately 33 maunds per acre, farmers are more optimistic about harvesting a greater wheat output in the 2020/21 season.
The International News report quoted the Agri-Forum Pakistan Chairman, Ibrahim Mughal as saying, “We’ve never heard so consistently about 40-45 maunds per acre yield by this many growers this year”.
A favorable temperature when the crop was sown has yielded favorable prospects for high output.
“Safely, we might see at least 1.5 million tons of more production than the initial estimates,” Mughal said.

 

[ARMalik]

I don't really get it - if there is Wheat Surplus, then why they cannot store some of it for 12 months to ensure if there is a wheat shortage the year after then the stored wheat can be utilised?? Do these people have basic common sense or too much corruption has turned them into jack-a.sses?

 

[POPEYE-Sailor]

I don't really get it - if there is Wheat Surplus, then why they cannot store some of it for 12 months to ensure if there is a wheat shortage the year after then the stored wheat can be utilised?? Do these people have basic common sense or too much corruption has turned them into jack-a.sses?

Bro not jack-*** they become devil.

 

[Bilal.]

I don't really get it - if there is Wheat Surplus, then why they cannot store some of it for 12 months to ensure if there is a wheat shortage the year after then the stored wheat can be utilised?? Do these people have basic common sense or too much corruption has turned them into jack-a.sses?

The surplus is for the coming crop. Previous two years have been short fall of wheat. Also there have been other factors like stored wheat being stolen by corrupt officers in Sindh, etc.

 

[Crimson Blue]

I don't really get it - if there is Wheat Surplus, then why they cannot store some of it for 12 months to ensure if there is a wheat shortage the year after then the stored wheat can be utilised??

Yeah, Sindhi government would store the wheat but would only release it only when it is rotten after looooong period of storage.

Read this dawn story published in Feb 2021: The Sindh food department is releasing 32,000 tonnes of ‘unfit-for-human-consumption’ wheat stocks from six years ago

 

[AsifIjaz]

I don't really get it - if there is Wheat Surplus, then why they cannot store some of it for 12 months to ensure if there is a wheat shortage the year after then the stored wheat can be utilized?? Do these people have basic common sense or too much corruption has turned them into jack-a.sses?

Lack of storage capacity in Silos... Many provincial storage is still as sacks kept in buildings... most of the flour mills that buy wheat from the market also store it in buildings... All that translates to pilferage, an eid for rodents, and loss due to rain.

 

[Azadkashmir]

steel containers

 

[Enigma SIG]

Lack of storage capacity in Silos... Many provincial storage is still as sacks kept in buildings... most of the flour mills that buy wheat from the market also store it in buildings... All that translates to pilferage, an eid for rodents, and loss due to rain.

I don't really understand. Granaries have been in existence for as long has man has found out ways to domesticate plants; while here in Pakistan we are using school buildings?

Lamme pao aur littar maro government ko.

 

[SD 10]

I don't really get it - if there is Wheat Surplus, then why they cannot store some of it for 12 months to ensure if there is a wheat shortage the year after then the stored wheat can be utilised?? Do these people have basic common sense or too much corruption has turned them into jack-a.sses?

most of the stored wheat never gets to be used and just rot in there. have seen wheat storage in worse conditions..... Too much incompetence