date:Jul 31, 2020
The Pakistan Agriculture Research Council has developed a new high-yielding garlic variety with the production potential of 24 tonnes per hectare. PARC chairman Dr Muhammad Azeem Khan has said that currently, Pakistan is at 19th position with an annual production of 81,167 tonnes of garlic, which is very low as compared to top yielding countries.
As per the FAO data, top garlic producing countries in the world include China (22,333,877 tonnes), India (1,721,000 tonnes), Bangladesh (461,970 tonn