Wheat Management Practices and Factors of Yield Decline in the Punjab Province of Pakistan (Report‪)‬

Byline: Khalid Mahmood Aujla, Sajida Taj, Khalid Mahmood and Nadeem Akmal ABSTRACT: Wheat is the main staple diet of the people of Pakistan. There were different views for wheat yield decline and crisis in the country during 2007- 08. To assess the wheat situation and compare wheat production practices to identify the major factors of yield decline, a national level field survey was con- ducted during June 2008 by Social Sciences Division, Pakistan Agricultural Re- search Council through its satellite institutes in the provinces. Total 238 wheat growers were purposively selected from different cropping zones of the Punjab province as sample of the national survey.