The Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) observed that wheat production for 2022-23 is estimated at 26.81 million tons from an area of 9.0 million hectares, an increase in production of 1.6 percent over the previous year.
While reviewing the performance of the Rabi crops (2022-23), the committee observed that the potato production for 2022-23 is estimated at 7.9 million tons from an area of 0.3 million hectares, an increase of 1.9 percent over the last year and tomato production for 2022-23 is estimated at 563.6 thousand tons from an area of 45.7 thousand hectares, an increase of 1.2 percent over the last year.
Gram production for 2022-23 has been estimated at 313 thousand tons from an area of 820.6 thousand hectares, a decrease in the production of 1 percent over the last year.
The FCA held detailed deliberations over the production targets for essential Kharif crops 2023-24 and decided to fix 9 million tons as the production target for rice over 3.1 million hectares of land and fix 7.6 million tons as the production target for maize over 1.3 million hectares of land.
The committee also fixed the production target of sugarcane at 78.6 million tons over an area of 1.2 million hectares. The targets for other crops such as mung, mash, and chilies were also fixed.