Constraints Confronting Small Farmers with Special Reference to Wheat Production in the Cotton Based Cropping Zone of Punjab (Pakistan)

Growth in agriculture sector in Pakistan is mainly dependent upon the performance of two main crops in wheat and cotton. Wheat being the staple food crop of the people carries great significance in the overall scheme of development of the economy. Since a major chunk of the total wheat output comes from the small land holders of the country, there are a number of constraints and bottlenecks which confront the wheat producers. Using multiple regression technique to the data, the effect of a number of explanatory variables on wheat production was assessed. The results of the study clearly identified some major variable factors such as sowing time, seed rate and N.P. fertilizer having direct impact on significant increase on wheat production.