ISLAMABAD, Jul 18 (APP):The government has set a target to produce about 410 thousand metric tons of gram and 4.56 thousand tons of lentil pulses during financial year 2024-25 to fulfill the domestic requirements of legumes as well as for exporting.
During the year 2024-25, chillies to be cultivated over 73.40 thousand hectares as the crop output has fixed over 191.10 thousand tons, he added.
Meanwhile, the output of other pulses including mung bean and mash have been fixed at 178.80 thousand tons and 8.60 metric tons respectively, said an official in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research.
Talking to APP here on Thursday, he said that during the season 2024-25, gram crop to be cultivated over 865 thousand hectares, where as the lentil pulse would be sown over 6.64 thousand hectares.
He said that the mung bean to be cultivated over 214.80 thousand hectares and mash over 11.05 thousand hectares during the period under review to fulfill the domestic requirements of leguminous vegetables.
It is worth mentioning here that over 269 metric tons of leguminous vegetables (pulses) worth $239,000 were exported during the period from July-May, 2023-24 as exports of the commodity recorded about 409.13 percent growth as compared to the exports of the corresponding period of the last year.
