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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Pakistan
Index
Powerhouse of Tarbela Dam, the largest earth-filled dam in the
world
Courtesy Embassy of Pakistan, Washington
Farming is Pakistan's largest economic activity. In FY
1993,
agriculture, and small-scale forestry and fishing,
contributed 25
percent of GDP and employed 48 percent of the labor force.
Agricultural products, especially cotton yarn, cotton
cloth, raw
cotton, and rice, are important exports. Although there is
agricultural activity in all areas of Pakistan, most crops
are
grown in the Indus River plain in Punjab and Sindh.
Considerable
development and expansion of output has occurred since the
early
1960s; however, the country is still far from realizing
the large
potential yield that the well-irrigated and fertile soil
from the
Indus irrigation system could produce. The floods of
September
1992 showed how vulnerable agriculture is to weather;
agricultural production dropped dramatically in FY 1993.
Data as of April 1994
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