ISLAMABAD, April 21: The Pakistan Meteorological Department has advised the farmers of upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and northern areas of the Punjab to complete harvesting and threshing of wheat crop at the earliest due to the chances of light rain in these areas during the remaining period of the current month.
In an advisory, the Met Office stated on Thursday that harvesting of matured wheat crop in time would allow enough time for land preparation and sowing of coming Kharif crops, especially maize and cotton.
According to the data collected and analysed by the National Agro-meteorological Centre of Pakistan Meteorological Department, light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorms and gusty winds were reported from most of the agricultural plains of Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, northern and central Balochistan during April 16 to 19 and thus harvesting of the wheat crop was delayed.
It has further been stated in the advisory that the remaining days of April are expected to witness dry weather and clear sky. However, light rain and drizzle may occur at a few places in northern parts of the country including agricultural plains of upper KPK, and northern areas of Punjab.
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