Title: Economics of producing irrigated crops in East Pakistan
Abstract: Rice is the indispensable part of our life. We need to produce more rice for feeding the increasing mouths and for eliminating the dependence on imports at the cost of our valuable foreign exchange. Moreover, food stuff including rice is not so easily available now in the world market as it was a few years back. Although Pakistan fixed the target of attaining food self-sufficiency by the end of 1969-70, the goal is too far to be achieved. Rice production in East Pakistan has increased from 7,598,000 tons in 1957-58 to 1,995,000 tons in 1967-68. Since yield per acre has stagnated at about 11 mds till 1962-63 and at 12 mds after that, total production increased during the period concerned due mainly to larger acreage under rice cultivation which increased from 20,235,000 acres in 1957-58 to 24,437,000 acres in 1967-68. During the same period Boro acreage increased from 816,000 acres to 1,534,000 acres and yield per acre of Boro paddy increased from 12.0 mds to 19.8 mds. 1
Publication Year: 1970
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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