The Year-wise details of the Sugarcane and Cotton Production during the last five years in the Country are as below:
Year | Sugarcane | Cotton |
Production (Million Tons) | Production (Million Bales) | |
2018-19 | 67.174 | 9.861 |
2019-20 | 66.380 | 9.151 |
2020-21 | 81.009 | 7.064 |
| 2020-22 | 88.651 | 8.330 |
| 2022-23 | 88.587* | 4.875 |
*Second estimates provided by Provincial Agriculture Departments. Sources: Provincial Department of Crop Reporting Service.
The following steps are being taken by the government for increasing the production of two major crops in future:
Sugarcane:
- Fixation of Minimum Indicative Price (MIP) for sugarcane at Rs 300/40 kg by Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rs 302/40 kg by Sindh and Balochistan.
- The purpose of MIP is to ensure a fair price for sugarcane farmers.
- Seed standards have been approved for Sugarcane.
- Research Institutes have developed over 32 commercial sugarcane varieties for increased productivity levels.
- Grants of permission to Export 250,000 MT sugar to help the industry for timely payments to farmers and earn foreign exchange.
Cotton:
- Enhancement in Minimum Intervention Price to Rs 8,500/40 kg for 2023-24 crop.
- Favorable prices and better management of the crop, besides better/conducive weather conditions, helping farmers in the improvement of yield.
- Approval of 24 high yield varieties by Punjab Seed Council during the last two years.
- Various programmes initiated to minimize losses due to Floods 2022, like; subsidy on fertilizers, import of fertilizers, irrigation infrastructure projects, Track and Traceability System for certified seed, etc.
