Most of the agricultural land in Sukkur District is defined as arable irrigated land, with small patches of unused land under rough grazing. Prior to 1972 irrigation water was supplied only in the Kharif season; thereafter, however, the canals of the Guddu Barrage command area were made perennial. This led to increasing salinity and water logging, to the extent that now some 70 per cent of cultivable land is affected.

     The land reforms of 1972 included the fixing of sixteen acres as the minimum subsistence holding in Sindh. Table 4.5 shows how those sixteen acres could yield a basic living wage. Cotton, wheat, mustard, sugar cane, and bar seem are the main crops grown on the left bank of the Indus, while the bar seem. Cotton, sugar cane, and oilseed are deemed industrial crops, the rest commercial.
Horticulture plays a relatively small role in the area. The main crops of the Kharif season are mango, date palm, and banana, while those of Rabi are oranges and lemons. The average yield per acre of date palm is seventy-nine maunds (one maund= 40 Kgs) of dry dates.
     The agro-industries which arise from the predominant crops include cotton-ginning, biscuit making, oilseed processing, date processing, and molasses and sugar making by traditional and modern methods.

 Land Use and Cropping Patterns

Area, production, and yield of major crops

     Agriculture is the mainstay of the Province of Sindh. With its varying climatic conditions and very scanty rainfall, but good soil, man has been practicing agriculture in Sindh since time immemorial, helped by the Indus, one of he longest rivers in the world.

Details of the major crops and yields for 1993-4 in Sukkur district are listed below:

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