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Owing to absorbing the bulk of the workforce and supplying raw materials to the majority of manufacturing sectors, the development of the agriculture sector helps alleviate poverty and improve the socio-economic structure of a vast part of the population. [...] Figure 2 shows the production of the basmati rice and coarse rice in the selected district of the Punjab, where the government has started the project to enhance the per acre yield. [...] 7 | P a g e CHAPTER 2 METHODOLOGY 2.0 Background As discussed in the previous chapter, the primary goal of the baseline survey is to collect the data regarding existing practices for the cultivation/growing of rice crop executed by the farmers and to assess the knowledge and use of modern techniques being adopted by rice growers. [...] Around 31 percent of the respondents informed they grew the nursery of basmati rice between the first and 15th of June. [...] Similarly, about one percent of rice basmati growers purchased the seed from rice research institute KSK, and only 0.34 percent of rice basmati respondents purchased the seed from the rice mills.