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Volume 29, No. (5), 2019 (October)
FORECASTING THE PRODUCTION OF SUGARCANE IN PAKISTAN FOR THE YEAR 2018-2030, USING BOX-JENKIN’S METHODOLOGY
Q. Mehmood , M. H. Sial , M. Riaz, N. Shaheen

Q. Mehmood, M. H. Sial, M. Riaz, N. Shaheen
1 Government Post Graduate College Bahawalnagar, PhD Scholar at Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Management and Technology Lahore. Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Management and Technology
2 Lahore. Department of Statistics Rahim Yar Khan Campus Islamia University, Bahawalpur. Department of Statistics,
3 Government Post Graduate Girls College Bahawalnagar.

Corresponding Author: qaisarm11@gmail.com
DOI: NA
Page Number(s): 1396-1401
Published Online First: October 01, 2019
Publication Date: October 01, 2019
ABSTRACT

Agriculture is the mainstay of Pakistan’s economy and contributes 24 percent of the GDP. Considering its vital role, planners and policy makers are always keen to have timely forecasts for the important crops such as wheat, cotton, rice and sugarcane. Of these sugarcane is a major cash crop and an important source of income for farmers in Pakistan. The present study is focused on developing and estimating time series models to forecast sugarcane production in Pakistan. Box-Jenkin (1976) methodology was employed to estimate production forecasting model using annual time series data as available from Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and various issues of Pakistan Economic Survey for the years 1947-2017. An appropriate ARIMA (2, 1, 1) model was estimated to forecast the production of sugarcane crop in Pakistan for the years 2018-2029. Over this period the model predicts a significant increase (6.56%) in sugarcane output. These forecasts can be very useful for agricultural policy makers, sugar industry as well as farmers in making prudent resource allocation and production decisions for sugarcane in Pakistan.

Keywords: Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average, Model, Error, production, forecast
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