Being agriculture oriented country, Pakistan’s government should seriously work on this sector as it is the backbone of our economy. Industry is already shutting down, instead of expanding due to power shortages. Pakistan spends approximately $ 2bn on edible oil imports, despite being an ...

LAHORE - Farmers should start harvesting of wheat when the crop fully ripes and in case of rain they should stop harvesting. Punjab Agriculture (Ext. & AR) Director General Dr Muhammad Anjum Ali told APP on Sunday the wheat crop was in its final phases and growers should ensure the availability ...

LAHORE - It is important to check the wheat crop on a regular basis to avoid aphid attack on it. These views were expressed by Punjab Agriculture Director General Dr M Anjum Ali in an interview to APP on Saturday. He said if growers observed an aphid attack they should shake the affected area b do ...

ISLAMABAD – Due to favourable climate conditions, sufficient availability of agricultural inputs and best management practices, bumper wheat crop production of 25 million tons is expected during the current year.Different crop measuring indicators have shown significant improvement that ...

LAHOREThe Agriculture Department has advised cotton growers to select fertile loam for maximum produc-tion of the crop.  Farmers should only use certified cotton varieties for sowing. He said BT variety Ali Akbar-703 could be sown from March till April 15, Nelum-121 from March to April 30, ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Floods in Pakistan have damaged at least 880,000 hectares of standing crops, including rice, maize, cotton, sugar cane, fruit orchards and vegetables, which represent about 3.7 percent of total national crop area, the United Nations food agency said on Tuesday, citing preliminary ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Chairman Ijaz Gohar has said that country would be unable to export cotton as 16 million bales production target is unlikely to be achieved due to torrential rains. Addressing a press conference, Gohar expressed his views in ...

CROP circles have confounded farmers and scientists alike since they were first recorded in the 17th century, and now physicist Professor Richard Taylor says the phenomenon is growing alongside advances in technology. The complexity of modern patterns, which can involve up to 2,000 individual and ...

ORLANDO (Reuters) Sprint Nextel Corp cried foul over a planned merger between AT&T Inc and T-Mobile USA, saying the deal would stifle competition and potentially hurt its profitability. Sprint executives attending a wireless industry event on Monday criticized AT&Ts proposed $39 billion of ...

MULTAN (APP) - Agriculture experts have urged the garlic growers to take good care of crop pleading that it becomes vulnerable to diseases in humid weather conditions. Decaying of leaf and stem can attack the plant at any stage during humid weather conditions and it appears as brown spots which ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Provincial Cooperative Bank Ltd (PPCBL) has disbursed Rs.111.526 million in Bahawal Nagar Distt during Kharif crop 2010 to small farmers through Cooperative Societies. This was stated by Dr Pervaiz Ahmad Khan, Registrar Cooperatives, Punjab while presiding a meeting, says a ...

LAHORE - While most of the listed sector has remained secured from the unprecedented floods, the crop damages alone paint a desolate economic outlook for the fiscal year 2010-11, economists said. They observed that most of the descending revision in economic growth is based on agricultural losses ...

LAHORE - Chairman Pakistan Cotton Forum (PCF) Seth Muhammad Akbar has stressed the government for urgent precautionary measures to save cotton crop from further damage due to floods and rains. The direction of all extension services of the Agriculture department should be highly efficiency-oriented ...

ROME (AFP) - Farm commodity prices are set to rise in the next 10 years, which will be good news for farmers if matched by appropriate policies, the UN food agency and the OECD club of wealthy nations said Tuesday. The medium-term outlook suggests that most agricultural prices will be higher in ...

KARACHI - The agriculturists have predicted that the production of major crops including cotton, rice and sugarcane of Kharif season might decline to 50 per due to anticipated shortage of Urea fertilizer owing to gas curtailment to fertilizer companies. President Sindh Chamber of Agriculture Dr ...

LAHORE - Cotton crop yield is likely to be marred in the upcoming season in the province as Punjab Seed Corporation (PSC) has failed to provide in time cottonseed to the growers due to mismanagement in the absence of Managing Director (MD), The Nation learnt on Wednesday. PSC Managing Director ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand, the worlds second biggest sugar exporter after Brazil, expected record sugarcane output at 80 million tonnes in the next crop year starting November 2010 as farmers capitalise on high prices. The forecast was within expectations and was unlikely to cause a stir in the ...

A 600FT jellyfish pattern has appeared in a barley field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire, in what is one of the most intriguing crop circles ever seen in Britain. The vast pattern appeared in the field last week and experts are claiming it to be the first of its kind in the world. Karen ...

IS this an amazing work of art, or of something from science-fiction? The neat, intricate pattern does pose the question - how on earth was it made? The huge crop circle sculpted in a sea of barley seems to be based on the Yin and Yang theme, and appeared near an ancient British burial mound ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Zari Taraqiati Bank Ltd. (ZTBL) and National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) will jointly launch Crop Loan Insurance Scheme (CLIS) for five major crops wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize and cotton from Kharif season this year. According to sources, the scheme is being launched by the ZTBL and ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The harvesting season is yet to approach and agriculturists are concerned that excessive rains across the country may harm wheat crop this year. The harvesting season usually starts in mid April but the continuous rains might delay the process and it is feared that more rains can ...

KARACHI (APP) - Rate for new cotton crop has touched Rs 3800 per maund (37.324 kg) as cotton spot rate has jumped by Rs 50 to close at Rs 3,350 per maund in the local market on the weekend due to rising demand. Chairman, Cotton Broker Forum Naseem Usman said here Saturday that 400 bales of cotton ...

KARACHI - The bumper rice crop production is unlikely this year due to number of reasons in the country, growers told The Nation. The grower leaders in Punjab and Sindh have calculated that the rice output of this season will be same of last of year 2007-08 of 5.5 million tons. The Ministry of ...

LAHORE (APP) - The proper application of modern combine harvester saves 25 to 30 per cent pre and post harvest crop losses thus improving economic conditions of the farmers. It was observed by Dr. Muhammad Yasin, Director General, (Field), Agriculture Department, Punjab on Monday while witnessing ...

UNITED NATIONS - Even though global cereal production is expected to hit a new record this year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is cautioning that the impact of the current financial crisis on the agricultural sector could mean a surge in food prices in the coming year. In its ...

As Muslims celebrated the close of the fasting month of Ramadan, suicide bombers killed at least 20 people in attacks on two Shi'ite prayer halls during early morning prayers in different areas of Baghdad early Thursday, the Interior Ministry said. The attacks were the second wave this week during ...

India has stopped the Cenab River water, which has further aggravated the water availability problem in Pakistan hitting hard the upcoming crops. Sources said that the Kharif crop especially, cotton and sugarcane ready crops in the country would be badly affected due to water blockades, which at ...

Resolution supporting impeachment of the President has been presented before the Balochistan Assembly. BA session is underway here with Speaker Aslam Bhotani in the chair.  

LAHORE-The alarming increase in the agriculture inputs has put the rice crop at high risk in Punjab as the farmers are unable to irrigate their fields properly following a record surge in the prices of petroleum products, growers and agriculturists said here on Monday. The government has set ...

SPIRALLING off across the Nevada desert, these huge geometric shapes are an amazing three miles in diameter. Created using only common garden implements and wooden sticks, the stunning creation is the most ambitious of many sand sculptures made by 47-year-old Jim Denevan. Making three trips ...