Growers advised to protect standing crops

The Met Office has asked the farmers to take steps for protecting the standing crops from the negative impacts of the changing monsoon system. It said that rice growers should sow the crop in line with the agriculture experts' recommendation and plan the irrigation keeping in view the rainy monsoon weather. It alerted the farmers to the weeds growth in the wake of rains that scale back yield output every year, saying that growers should remove the unneeded plants from their standing crops.
Light to moderate rainfall is expected in upper parts of Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir while in isolated areas of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Kalat, Zhob and Quetta and Karachi Divisions.