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May
2002
Pakistan's K&N Poultry to
enter export market
K&N's Poultry Farms after acquiring M-Artal Poultry
International last December, is now all set to
diversify.(27-5-02) .
Detail
UN offers credit to Afghan farmers
to drop opium
VIENNA - The United Nations said on Wednesday it was
sponsoring a programme of small loans for farmers in
war-ravaged Afghanistan to give them an economic incentive
not to produce opium.
Detail
Islamabad, New Delhi share data on
water
NEW DELHI-India and Pakistan on Wednesday exchanged data on
sharing of water of six rivers under the Indus Water Treaty
on the first day of their three-day annual meeting here.
Detail
Weight, packing standards for mango export
KARACHI-Customs has implemented "weight and packing
standardization" to prevent exports of ineligible items in
export packing of mangoes from Pakistan. Officials said here
on Wednesday that the new rules will be implemented from
June 1, 2002.
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Smuggling up 33 percent Central
Board of Revenue urged to cut duty on tea
ISLAMABAD-Tea smuggling into Pakistan has gone up by 33
percent during the last two years and, according to Pakistan
Tea Association (PTA), Iran, Afghanistan and United Arab
Emirates (UAE) have emerged as major source of this illegal
trade.Detail
Pakistan wheat exporters hope
for better prices
KARACHI- Pakistani wheat exporters, relatively new to the
world market, are hoping acceptance by foreign buyers will
boost prices for locally produced grain, an industry
official said.
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Greater Thal Canal project on schedule
LAHORE- Work on various components of the Greater Thal
Canal, one of WAPDA's Vision 2025 projects, is on schedule
or ahead, Engr Mumtaz Husain Sheikh, the project director
has said.
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Farmers need to be educated in
efficient use of water: study
HYDERABAD- Recent studies carried out by 'On-Farm Water
Management, Sindh', to identify constraints of provincial
agriculture sector facing enormous production losses have
revealed that the major constraints are water and land.
Detail
Pakistan likely to produce 4 million tonnes sugar next
year
LAHORE - Pakistan is likely to produce as many as four
million tonnes sugar in the next year, Pakistan Sugar Mills
Association (PSMA) Chairman Chaudhry Muhammad Zaka Ashraf
said on Wednesday.Deatil
Wheat
procurement behind target
TOBA TEK SINGH-The food department could purchase only 20,835
metric tones of the targeted 50,000 metric tones of wheat
from the district.
Detail
Registration
of nine pesticide companies cancelled
DADU-The registration of nine pesticide companies has been
cancelled and cases have been registered against them on
the charges of selling spurious pesticide.
Detail
Farmers
to run irrigation system
HYDERABAD-Farmers
will be authorized to operate the irrigation system collectively
through their organizations and in due course of time the
irrigation system of minors and watercourses will be handed
over to the farmers' organizations.
This was said by director general, agriculture engineering
and water management, Sindh, Rao Abdul Jabbar, while speaking
in the inauguration ceremony of a five-day training course
for the capacity building of farmers organizations and the
officials of the irrigation and water management departments
here on Thursday.
He hoped that with the implementation of this system, water
distribution disputes would be amicably resolved.
In his lecture on "Organisation and Management",
Prof Mushtaq Mirani stressed the need for quality leadership
of the farmers organizations.
According to programme, practical training of the participants
will be held in agricultural fields of Goth Photo Dahri,
taluka Matiari.
courtesy Daily Dawn
,17 May, 2002
Livestock
migration from Cholistan
CHOLISTAN -The entire animal population of the Cholistan
desert has migrated during the last three-year drought after
suffering a mortality rate of five to seven per cent. Detail
Wheat export chance to Egypt may be lost due to 'go-slow'
ISLAMABAD-Pakistan is likely to miss a chance of exporting
sizeable quantity of wheat to Egypt due to a 'go-slow policy'
of its embassy in Cairo, it was learnt here on Monday.
Detail
Shipping schedule worked out
for replacement of wheat to Iraq
ISLAMABAD -After hectic consultations, Islamabad and Baghdad
have worked out a schedule to ship replacement of 65,000
tonnes of wheat. According to the agreement, Islamabad will
complete the entire consignment in two phases by June 8, next.
Detail
Private sector to export 275,000
tonnes wheat
KARACHI -The private
sector plans to export 275,000 tonnes of wheat by June this
year. The likely destinations will be Iraq, East Africa,
Sudan, Gulf, Vietnam etc. They have asked the Port Qasim
Authority (PQA) to provide same facilities, especially 10
demurrage-free days as enjoyed by the Trading Corporation of
Pakistan, for export of wheat.
Detail
Govt wheat price claims exposed
LAHORE -Wheat price remains
well below Rs300 per 40kg, exposing official claims to ensure
support price at all costs.
Detail
High pesticide rates hamper
production
PESHAWAR-Small farmers in the Frontier Province are facing
hardships in the wake of high prices of insecticides and the
tactics adopted by tobacco companies to fleece them.
Detail
Agri companies exempted from
stamp duty, registration fees
KARACHI-Sindh cabinet in its meeting held on Tuesday has
decided that agricultural companies registered under Companies
Ordinance 1984 have been exempted from stamp duty and
registration fees.
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Sindh wheat growers victims of their
own follies
HYDERABAD -The wheat growers in Sindh, it seems, are victims
of their own follies as their strategy to eliminate middlemen
from wheat trade boomeranged and Sindh government, which is
facing huge recurring expenses for keeping huge carryover
stock, had to reduce its annual wheat procurement target by 50
percent.
Detail
Indus River System Authority
okays Greater Thal Canal Project
ISLAMABAD -The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has
approved 'Greater Thal Canal Project' with majority and
Satpara Dam with consensus.
Detail
India
violating Indus Water Treaty
ISLAMABAD-India is well into the advanced stages of
implementing the controversial Baglihar project in clear
breach of the Indus Water Treaty, but Pakistan's ministries of
foreign affairs and water and power continue to downplay the
creeping violations of the Treaty, investigations.Detail
Irsa to review Thal project
ISLAMABAD- The Indus River System Authority will be given a
presentation on the controversial Thal canal and Satpara dam
projects here on Thursday. Official sources told Dawn that two
teams of WAPDA and the Punjab irrigation department would
brief the Irsa members on the pros and cons of the two
projects. Detail
President asks Agri Bank of Pakistan to give more small loans
ISLAMABAD- President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday
directed the Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP)
to augment the provision of credit to small farmers with focus
on women in the rural areas.
Detail
'Remission in Agri
Bank loans after assessment'
SANGHAR-Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Khair
Muhammad Junejo has said that the remission in Agriculture
Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP) loans up to Rs 25,000
announced by the president will be granted after assessment by
a committee and identification of most affected dehs in Sindh.
He also stressed on the need of building water resources in
the country, otherwise the future will be very bleak. This, he
said, while talking to newsmen at Sanghar Press Club. He also
announced that Rs 25,000 for the press club.
The minister said that despite the shortage of water the
country exported 1.5 million tonnes of wheat and this year
there is a 14 million surplus bales of cotton lying unsold in
the ginning factories. Junejo also said that a lot has to be
done to improve the quality of wheat while exporting it and
due to the inferior standard of wheat we fetch low prices in
the competitive international markets.
courtesy Daily Business
Recorder ,
01 May, 2002
Plan on anvil to solve
marketing, storage problems
ISLAMABAD- The government has prepared a short-term marketing
plan to solve marketing and storage problems of the growers.
According to official sources, the proposed plan would help
cater the needs of the farmers. The government wanted to
create a farmer friendly atmosphere to encourage the growers
boost their production. In this regard, the government has
allowed free movement of wheat across the provincial and
national frontiers.
The private sector is needed to be duly encouraged to play its
role in improving the marketing and storage mechanism
benefiting the farmers. All the relevant government agencies
and banks have been instructed to extend required guidance and
monetary assistance to all those interested parties, which
wanted to shoulder government responsibilities to enhance
agriculture production of the country.
courtesy Daily Business
Recorder ,
01 May, 2002
Middlemen's role in
Sindh agriculture to end
KARACHI -The middleman
will no more be allowed to exploit agriculturists. The
purchase of the agricultural produce in advance, by these
middlemen is also a thing of the past, said official sources.
Detail
Stray activity on
cotton market
KARACHI-After several lean
sessions, stray activity was witnessed on the cotton market on
Tuesday as spinners resumed their covering operations.
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