Plan being chalked out to produce 2378.8 thousand tonnes of maize in 2008-09

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) is chalking out a plan to cultivate maize crop over 1001.2 thousand hectare to produce 2378.8 thousand tonnes of maize to fulfill the domestic maize consumption during the year 2008-09.

An official in the Minfal said here Saturday that maize is an essential food crop which is being used in different food items as well as to prepare animal, poultry feed and edible oil.

He said that this crop is grown twice in a year adding that, in some areas it is a substitute of wheat. Moreover, the farmers use its stems as animal fodder.