Agriculture: The growing threat of double-rice cropping
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Rice is Pakistan’s second-largest crop after wheat and the country’s largest agricultural export commodity. For decades, the Punjab government consistently enforced a ban on raising rice nurseries before May 20 under the Punjab Agricultural Pests Ordinance, 1959, and its 1960 Rules. Its violation was treated as a cognizable offence. In recent years, however, the emergence of short-duration basmati and hybrid rice varieties in Pakistan, coupled with a lax enforcement regime, has encouraged farmers across several districts to grow two sequential rice crops — the first (early) from March-April to
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