"Faisalabad's crop production and area information"
Pakistan is an agricultural country where the major part of the population lives in rural areas. Due to scarce employment possibilities, underdeveloped education and health infrastructure, migration fron rural to urban areas continues and leads to ever higher demands of food, space and employment. The urban and peri-urban farming not only includes growing of food crops but also aninal husbandry,agro-forestry and horticulture. Faisalabad is 3rd largest city of Pakistan after Karachi and Lahore. Due to its textile industry, Faisalabad is also known as Manchester of Pakistan,but its agricultural basis in the Punjab where irrigated cropping of wheat, rice, cotton and fodder crops cultivated for livestock prevail, is equally strong. Total area of Faisalabad is 589755 hectares out of which cultivated area is 475268 hectares. Tje area for forests in Faisalabad is 1174 hectares. The district of Faisalabad comprises of 5856 km square. Faisalabad has annual rainfall of 550 mm with maximum a...