date:Mar 04, 2020
Monday, Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Nauman Ahmed Langrial said that a better potato crop was expected this year. The minister claimed that potatoes have been grown on over 180.000 ha of land in Punjab last year, and more than four million tonnes of the produce was yielded. He said that the per hectare potato production in the country had been 20 tonnes on an average, while other countries had been yielding 25 to 30 tonnes per ha.
The minister said that the Punjab government would ensure d