The area under rice has increased from 790,000 ha in 1948 to 2 million ha in 1978 and has almost remained stable around the same figure since then which is attributable mainly to the fact that rice crop consumes water quite intensively and area cannot be increased much due to limited additional water availability. The change in area was found negative during 1967/70-1971/74, while production changed by more than 15%. This change was brought about by increase in yield which occurred as a consequence of green revolution.
Khurshid Ali Qureshi, Buland Akhtar, Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry,. (1993) CONTRIBUTION OF AREA AND YIELD OF TOTAL RICE PRODUCTION IN PAKISTAN - AN ANALYSIS, , Volume 30, Issue 1.
