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Punjab has achieved 51 percent of its wheat cultivation target, with the area sown increasing by 7.7 percent compared with the corresponding period last year, according to the Punjab Agriculture Department.

Punjab and Sindh are facing a projected 22 per cent irrigation-water shortfall during the ongoing Rabi season, raising concerns over the availability of water for wheat and other winter crops as the country's three major reservoirs currently hold a combined 6.167 million acre-feet of usable water.