Abstract
The study was carried out to explore the factors responsible towards low wheat productivity in the study area. The data revealed that a significant proportion of small farmers (78.6 %) sowed their wheat crop in November 2002, which was high across the other farm size groups, whereas, the small farmers (9 %) who sowed their wheat crop in October 2002 obtained more yield than other farm size groups who sowed wheat in November and December 2002 in the study area. The data also revealed that the large farmers (100 %) sowed Inqlab-91 followed by Uqab2000 (45.6 %), Iqbal-2000 (36 %) and M.H-97 (27 %) varieties. The large farmers obtained 5.14 tones/hectare, 4.01 tones/hectare, 4.15 tones/hectare and 3.69 tones/hectare wheat yield during the years 2000,2001,2002 and 2003 respectively in the study area. It was also found that average wheat yield reduction was 1.00 tones/ha during the year2002-03 in the study area. More small farmers (40 %), (32 %),(55 %), (14 %) and (9 %) than other farm size groups reported no use of weedicdes, lodging, hailstorm in area, attack of aphids/rust and poor management respectively were the main factors, causing low wheat productivity during the year 2002-03 in the study area. Key words: Wheat, variety, factors, yield, responsible
