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Mardan is known as the best agricultural area in the country. It's land is very suitable for cultivation of sugar cane and tobacco and is therefore, rightly called the land of sugar cane and tobacco. Landuse pattern of the Mardan district for the year 1997-98 is as under:

LANDUSE PATTERN OF MARDAN DISTRICT

S.No.	Land Utilization Status	Area in Hectares
	Total Area Reported	162085
1.	Cultivated Land	112790
i.	Net Sown Area	96532
ii.	Current Fallow	16258
2.	Un-Cultivated Land	49295
i.	Forests	7938
ii.	Cultivable Waste	3217
iii.	Not available for cultivation	3814

Source: Agriculture Department, NWFP, 1997-98

The major crops grown in the district are wheat, sugar cane, tobacco, maize, rice, rape seed and mustard etc. Fruits and vegetables are also grown. The average production and yield per hectare of the major crops grown during 1997-98 are given below:-

AREA, PRODUCTION AND YIELD PER HECTRE OF THE MAJOR CROPS GROWN FOR THE YEAR 1997-98

Crop	Area in (Hectares)		Production in (Tonnes)		Yield (Ton/Hect)
Crop	Irrigated	Un-irrigated	Irrigated	Un-irrigated	Irrigated	Un-irrigated
Wheat	41941	5296	72349	3712	1.725	0.7009
Gram	7	-	4.5	-	0.643	-
Mustard	565	1533	359	830	0.635	0.0054
Rabbi Potato	-	-	-	-	-	-
Onion	64	-	725	-	11.328	-
Tobacco	-	-	-	-	-	-
Virginia Tobacco	1747	-	3891	--	2.227	-
Desi	726	-	1344	-	1.851	-
Maize	31068	1362	55519	1186	1.787	0.870
Sugar Cane	30535	504	1265679	15624	41.450	31.000
Rice	1339	-	1181	-	1.629	-
Sugar Beat	4223.22	-	127074.017	-	30.089	-
Kharif Potato	252	-	3689	-	14.639	-

Source: Agriculture Department 1997-98

Irrigation

The main source of irrigation are the canals. The Upper Swat canal irrigates, mostly, Mardan district and the Lower Swat canal irrigates south-western part of the district. Besides, irrigation is done by tube-wells and lift irrigation. The table below shows detail of irrigation channels/schemes in Mardan district.

Sugar Cane Farm in Mardan

Sugar Cane Farm, Mardan

Rahat in Mardan

A unique kind of Persian Wheel (Rahat), Fazal Abad, Mardan

IRRIGATION CHANNELS/SCHEMES IN MARDAN DISTRICT

S.No.	Name of River/Stream	Number	Flood discharge cusecs	Length Kilometers
1	Main Canal RD.90000-111850	1	949	6.66
2	Disty No.7	1	25	4.27
3	Disty No.8	1	454	21.19
4	Koragh Branch	1	94	14.96
5	Sheikh Yousaf Minor	1	32	5.78
6	Maho Dheri Minor	1	28	4.53
7	Disty No.9	1	440	26.00
8	Minor No.1/9	1	35	7.32
9	Minor No.2 of Disty No.9	1	35	6.03
10	Minor No.3 of Disty No.9	1	25	4.82
11	Kalpani Disty	1	150	15.55
12	Minor No.1 of Kalpani Disty	1	45	8.87
13	Minor No. of Kalpani Disty	1	42	9.83
Schemes:-
1	New Mayar Lift Irrigation Scheme	1	5	0.61
2	Old Mayar Lift Irrigation Scheme	1	4.3	0.82
3	Arabi Banda Lift Irrigation Scheme	1	2.0	1.65

Source: Irrigation Department, 1997-98

Forestry

The table below shows the total area under forest including canal and road sides with resumed land and private land in the favour of plantation.

FOREST AREA IN MARDAN DISTRICT

S.No.	Particulars of Forests	Area
1	Along the roads	115 Kms
2	Along the canals	1117 Kms
3	Section-38 (Private land for plantation)	4231 Kms
4	Resumed land	3351 Acres 3 kanals and 13 Marls

Source: Divisional Forest Officer, Mardan, NWFP, 1997-98

Horticulture

The area is famous for orchards. The important fruits are orange, plum, peach, apricort, pear, rare mango and apple. The following are the varieties of fruits with area covered under orchards:-

AREA UNDER ORCHARDS, MARDAN DISTRICT