Recent field travel suggests that floods damaged about 80,000 hectares (3 percent) of Pakistan’s rice area and reduced production by 200,000 metric tons. Flood waters receded relatively quickly in Punjab and flooding was not as severe as anticipated in Sindh. Exports are forecast marginally lower for 2014/15. An estimated 500,000 metric tons of on-farm wheat stocks were damaged by late monsoon rains and flooding, resulting in an expected increase in the use of wheat for animal feed. Recent rains and floods bode well for the planting of the 2014/15 wheat crop.
