19.5m tonnes wheat target for Punjab From Our Correspondent MULTAN: The Punjab government has fixed wheat production target at 19.5 million tonnes for the year 2015-2016, said agriculture officials. The Punjab province produces 70pc of the country’s wheat. Pakistan had produced 25.478 million tonnes of wheat last year, including 19.281 million tonnes from Punjab. The officials stressed the farmers to focus on removal of weeds from fields and others measures to ensure increase in per acre yield. Weeds play havoc to wheat crop and reduce 42 per cent of wheat production, they said, adding that weeds caused wastage of water, fertrilsers and other resources. CONDOLENCE REFRENCE: The National Party, Multan chapter, paid rich tribute to the party’s late secretary general Dr Yasin Baloch at a condolence reference here on Thursday. Dr Yasin had died in a traffic accident. National Party senior leader Taj Muhammad Soz said late Dr Yasin contributed a lot for the welfare of the downtrodden and continued his struggle against injustice till his death. “He played a key role in Balochistan policy making particularly in the fields of education and health,” Soz added. The participants also condoled with Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik and NP president Mir Hasil Bazinjo on the death of Dr Yasin Baloch. NP office-bearers Inamul Haq Kamboh, Imtiaz Hussain Hashmi, Col (retd) Liaqat Ali, Akhtar Awan, Yamin Comrade, Ahmad Hassan Ghazi, Mumtaz Jai advocate, Syed Hassan Bokhari, Chaudhry Asad Karim, Ramzan Ansari and Rao Masud Tahir also spoke on the occasion.
