ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Expected spell of rains would bring positive impact on all seasonal crops including, pulses, fruits and vegetables.
Particularly, these rains would help in increasing the moisture of fields for timely sowing of all major Kharif crops including cotton, rice, sugarcane, maize and pulses, Member Plant Sciences in Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) Dr Ali said while talking to the state-run news agency on Tuesday.
Besides, he said recent spell of rains would help in decreasing the overall temperature which would further boost the output of wheat crop in the country.
Recently the wheat crop was at milky or maturity stage and during this stage above normal heat badly affects the growth and nourishment of the grains and can decrease the output of the crop, he added.
An official in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research said above normal rains and hailstorm could damage wheat crops in that stage as the crop had reached to its maturity stage.
The met office had predicted that a fresh westerly wave was likely to enter in Pakistan and likely to grip upper and central parts of the country that may persist till Thursday.
In the next 48 hours, rain-thunderstorm was expected at scattered places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad divisions, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Hailstorm was also expected in Islamabad, upper Punjab, upper KPK and Kashmir.
