The current foggy weather would have a positive impact on the wheat crops, agriculturists told here on Friday. They said that the fog would not only have a positive impact on the wheat crop but it would also help in getting better yield. However, they feared that unavailability of water could affect the crop.
Director and Chief Co-ordinator Farmers Associates Pakistan Dr Muhammad Tariq Buccha said that to observe the affects of fog, it is very necessary that one should know about the early and late sowing of wheat. He said that in such weather, late sowing of wheat helps, as the colder the temperature is, the better the yield would be.
"Fortunately, this year wheat was sowed late and current weather is better for the crop," Bucha said adding besides good weather, other factors are very negative. "The fuel is getting scarce and running tube wells and watering crop is difficult," he said. Bucha said that the current weather impacts the vegetables negatively. "The potato and other vegetables could spoil from the intense cold," he added.
President of Kissan Board Punjab Khurshid Kanju said that tillering (grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers) of wheat would get better. He said that the government should concentrate on other factors like availability of water and fertilisers. The government has fixed wheat target at 25 million tonnes with a support price of Rs 950 per maund. The wheat was sowed late in majority of areas of Punjab due to later crushing of sugarcane crop and delay in picking of cotton.