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Legume

Lentil

📍 Pakistan

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

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Sow Harvest
Sow
Oct – Nov
Harvest
Apr
Growing period
120 - 150 days
Seeding rate
45 kg/ha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Lentil grows in Pakistan

dry arid

Pothowar region

This covers the Salt Range and the Potwar Plateau. The climate of this zone is semi-arid with hot summers.

other

Rainfed areas of NWFP

South of NWFP. Agriculture mostly depends on rains.

hill mountain

Upland Balochistan

Highland Balochistan is located in the north central part of the province. It has a continental semi-arid climate with hot summers and cold winters. The most limiting factor for crop production in rain-fed areas of the highlands is the low rainfall and its skewed distribution both in terms of time and space. Annual rainfall ranges from 175 to 200 mm in the southern districts of Khuzdar, Mastung and Kalat

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