Varietal adoption effect on wheat crop production in irrigated areas of NWFP.

摘要

This study was conducted to examine wheat yield performance and identify different wheat varieties cultivated in irrigated areas in North-West Frontier Pakistan. Data were gathered by interviewing 362 farmers in districts of Swat, Kohat, and Charsadda. It was found that the farmers allocated two-thirds of the cultivated area to wheat. Banned (rust susceptible) variety Inquilab 91 was the most popular and mostly grown by majority of the farmers. Fakhrisarhad was the top yielding variety, with an average yield of 30.40 maunds per acre. The average yield of different varieties ranged from 19.43 to 30.40 maunds per acre, while the overall average yield of wheat was 22.52 maunds per acre. More than half of the farmers reported that their major problems were expensive wheat seeds, lack of information and unavailability of improved wheat seeds.