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Agricultural assistance and extension services, from sowing advice to post-harvest handling.
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Department of Agriculture
Advancing Agriculture.Supporting Farmers.Strengthening Pakistan.
Connecting farmers, communities, businesses and agricultural institutions with trusted information, programmes and services.
What are you looking for?
Search crops, programmes, subsidies, offices and publications across the department.
Two seasons
Rabi & Kharif
Our purpose
Agriculture at the heart of Pakistan
Agriculture feeds the country, employs a large share of its workforce and underpins the rural economy. The department exists to put reliable guidance, practical support and public programmes within reach of every farmer.
- Food security. Steady production of wheat, rice and other staples across both cropping seasons.
- Farmers first. Advisory, input support and training delivered through district offices and field staff.
- Rural economies. Stronger value chains from the field to the market, and fewer losses along the way.
- Sustainable innovation. Water-efficient irrigation, certified seed and climate-resilient practice.
Farmer services
How can we help?
Crops & Production
Crop-specific guidance, recommended varieties and season-by-season best practice.
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Programmes & Schemes
Government agricultural initiatives, what they cover and who can apply.
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Subsidies & Support
Farmer assistance, input support and incentive schemes with eligibility explained.
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Training & Extension
Field schools, workshops and digital learning delivered through district offices.
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Agricultural Offices
Find your nearest district office, service centre or soil-testing laboratory.
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In the field
Growing stronger communities through agriculture.
Extension officers work alongside growers in their own fields — reading the soil, timing the sowing, and turning national programmes into decisions that make sense acre by acre.
The agricultural year
Rabi and Kharif —
two seasons, one calendar
Kharif
Rabi
Year-round
Sowing
Harvest
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Windows are indicative and shift with province, altitude and season. Solid bars mark harvest; dashed bars mark sowing. Confirm dates for your district with your local agricultural office.
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Find agricultural information
One search across crop guidance, programmes, publications, regulations and offices — so a grower does not need to know which department wing holds the answer.
Programmes & schemes
Programmes making a difference
Input support · Open
Farmer Support Initiative
Direct input-cost support aimed at smallholders, delivered through district agriculture offices and paid against verified purchase receipts.
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Water & irrigation
Modern Irrigation Programme
Supports the shift from flood irrigation to pressurised systems, with technical design provided by the department’s water management wing.
- Eligibility
- Farmers with a verified water source and a minimum of 2 acres under a single command.
- Closes
- 15 December 2026
Open
Mechanisation
Agricultural Machinery Support Scheme
Reduces the capital barrier to mechanisation, with a preference for shared-use service models that reach farms too small to own machinery.
- Eligibility
- Individual farmers, registered service providers and farmer cooperatives.
- Closes
- 28 February 2027
Open
Seed & varieties
Certified Seed Development Programme
Raises the share of certified seed in circulation by developing a registered grower network alongside the federal seed certification system.
- Eligibility
- Growers meeting isolation-distance and field-inspection standards for seed production.
- Closes
- Rolling intake
Open
Climate resilience
Climate-Smart Agriculture Initiative
Builds resilience to heat, erratic rainfall and shifting sowing windows through variety selection, tunnel farming and conservation agriculture.
- Eligibility
- Farmers, grower associations and research partners in designated climate-vulnerable districts.
- Closes
- 30 June 2027
Current advisories
Agricultural alerts
Field advisories issued to growers. Sample notices shown for this demonstration concept.
Crop advisory
Monitor wheat fields for early pest activity
Wheat growers are advised to monitor fields for early signs of aphid and termite activity, particularly on late-sown crops. Scout weekly and treat only where the economic threshold is crossed.
22 August 2026 · Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Weather advisory
Rain expected across central districts
Rainfall is forecast across central cropping districts over the coming week. Growers should postpone foliar sprays and irrigation until conditions settle to avoid runoff and wash-off.
20 August 2026 · Central Punjab
Water management
Plan the pre-sowing irrigation early this season
Canal rotation schedules are being issued for the coming Rabi season. Plan the pre-sowing (rauni) irrigation against your rotation turn rather than the calendar.
15 August 2026 · All provinces
Orchard advisory
Cover date bunches before the monsoon
Date growers in Khairpur and Makran should complete bunch covering before monsoon rain reaches the groves. Rain at ripening is the leading cause of avoidable fruit loss.
11 August 2026 · Sindh, Balochistan
Agriculture in numbers
The scale of the sector
24M+Cultivated hectares
9.8M+Farming households
148Agricultural offices
12Active programmes
Illustrative figures for a demonstration concept. Not official statistics.
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Agriculture in focus
Support starts at your district office.
Find your nearest agricultural office, service centre or soil-testing laboratory and speak to an extension officer who knows your area.