ISLAMABAD, Oct 30 (APP): Pakistan\u2019s sugarcane production rose slightly during 2025-26, supported by a higher cultivated area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Official documents available with Wealth Pakistan show that total area under sugarcane cultivation in 2025-26 reached 1.213 million hectares, showing a 1.7% increase over the previous year\u2019s 1.19 million hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The country\u2019s sugarcane production is provisionally estimated at 84.74 million tons against 84.24 million tons in 2024-25, reflecting an increase of 0.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sugarcane is a high-value cash crop of Pakistan and holds great significance for the country\u2019s sugar-related industries, which are the second-largest agro-industry after textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Punjab, which contributes the largest share to national sugarcane output, expanded its sugarcane cultivation area by 4.8% to 856,000 hectares during 2025-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the expansion in area, Punjab\u2019s sugarcane production has risen by 2.7% to 61.73 million tons from 60.11 million tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sindh has experienced a decline in both area and production, with cultivation area down 6.2% to 267,700 hectares and production decreasing 5.6% to 18.13 million tons from 19.21 million tons in the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the province\u2019s yield improved slightly by 0.6% to 67.7 tons per hectare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded a marginal decrease of 0.8% in the cultivated area to 89,300 hectares from 90,000, but its production remained steady at around 4.8 million tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The yield stayed unchanged at 54.1 tons per hectare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Balochistan, though a small producer, showed improvement with its area rising 14.3% to 800 hectares from 700 and production increasing 6.9% to 38,900 tons from 36,400 tons in the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The document shows that the Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) had set a target of 1.146 million hectares for sugarcane cultivation during 2025-26. According to provisional estimates the actual area achieved was 1.213 million hectares, 5.9% higher than the target, while production at 84.74 million tons exceeded the target of 80.32 million tons by 5.5%. This depicts an increase of 0.6% from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Punjab exceeded its targets, with the cultivated area up 12.5% and production higher by almost the same margin. Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, however, fell short of both area and production targets, recording shortfalls of 7.7% and 6.0%, respectively, in area, and 9.1% and 7.0%, respectively, in production. Balochistan exceeded its area target by 14.3%, but fell short of the production target by 13.6%. According to the document, during 2024-25, the country\u2019s total yield was recorded at 69.8 tons per hectare, which was 0.3% lower than the FCA target of 70.0 tons per hectare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30 (APP): Pakistan\u2019s sugarcane production rose slightly during 2025-26, supported by a higher cultivated area. Official documents available with Wealth Pakistan show that total area under sugarcane cultivation in 2025-26 reached 1.213 million hectares, showing a 1.7% increase over the previous year\u2019s 1.19 million hectares. The country\u2019s sugarcane production is provisionally estimated at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"\n