Reasonable growth in agriculture sector hoped

KARACHI (April 05, 2009): Agricultural sector growth will be reasonably good during FY09 due an anticipated record wheat harvest above target performance of minor crops and a reasonably good out turn by the livestock sub-sector. According to the SBP second quarterly report, despite the drag from 18.5 percent decline in sugarcane output during kharif FY09, agricultural sector expects a healthy growth due to the bumper wheat crop.