Farmers’ Perception Regarding Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Crop Production in Layyah District-Pakistan

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Badar Siddiqui ¹ , Syed Ali Asghar Shah ²

1 - Department of Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
2 - Department of Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Received: 2019-02-24 Accepted : 2020-07-08 Published : 2020-09-01

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