ISLAMABAD: The overall performance of agriculture sector has recorded 2.9 percent growth during 2014-15 as compared to 2.7 percent during previous year owing to positive development in all related agriculture sub-sectors.
The crops witnessed a growth of 1 percent, livestock 4.1 percent, Forestry 3.2 percent and Fishing 5.8 percent.
The agriculture's crop sub-sector component which includes important crops, other crops and cotton ginning showed growth of 0.3 percent, 1.1 percent and 7.4 percent respectively.
Official sources on Wednesday said important crops carry great significance by having a share of 25.6 percent in agricultural value added has experienced a meager growth of 0.3 percent in fiscal year 2014-15 against growth of 8.0 percent during same period of last year on account of revised production estimates of wheat crop.
The important crops performance remained weak as only cotton and rice production recorded positive growth of 9.5 percent and 3.0 percent respectively while sugarcane, maize and wheat production recorded a negative growth of 7.1 percent, 5.0 percent and 1.9 percent respectively with respect to last year estimates.
Other crops contributed 11.1 percent in value addition of agriculture recorded an increase of 1.1 percent during 2014-15 against negative growth of 5.4 percent during the same period last year that is due to increase in production of pulses, vegetables and fruits which recorded positive growth of 13 percent, 2.5 percent and 0.9 percent respectively.
With regard to crop situation, the sources said important crops such as wheat, rice, sugarcane maize and cotton account for 25.6 percent of the value added in overall agriculture and 5.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The other crops account for 11.1 percent of the value added in overall agriculture and 2.3 percent of GDP. Livestock contributes 56.3 percent to agricultural value added much more than the
combined contribution of important crops, other crops and cotton ginning (39.6 percent).
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