ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Friday notified up to 64 per cent increase in freight rates …
Youth In Agriculture, RMG Collaboration Yields Massive Results
The Minister noted that as a government that sees the private sector as the engine of economic growth, it will …
Agriculture can curb planet warming emissions ‘immediately’: U.N.
BONN, Germany (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The global agricultural sector can curb emissions immediately and provide a window for fossil …
Little change in world wheat production: USDA
By Grain Central, 10 November 2017 The world wheat production total, forecast at 752 million tonnes (Mt), has changed little …
Why Are Farmers Still Growing Wheat?
After the USDA released its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) Thursday, corn and soybeans took the lead story …
Thailand: Thailand works to develop organic rice market
The Thai Government needs to find the right markets for organic rice before encouraging farmers to increase the cultivating area …
Cambodia’s rice export to China up 59 pct in 10 months
Cambodia had exported 142,768 tons of milled rice to China in the first 10 months of 2017, a 59-percent rise …
India slaps duty on peas, wheat
India’s government has imposed a 50 percent duty on peas and a 20 percent duty on wheat. Pulse prices in …
BSFIC to import 50,000 tons of sugar
There were 36,660 tons of sugar reserves until November 2. Of that, 20,202 tons are reserved for the military, police, …
Textile industry seeks withdrawal of restrictions on cotton import
LAHORE – APTMA Chairman Aamir Fayyaz has urged federal government to immediately withdraw restrictions on import of cotton to let the industry meet the export requirement of quality textile products …
Global Cotton forecast: Production to exceed rate of use
GLOBAL cotton stocks, outside of China, are expected to lift to a record 53 million bales for in 2017-18. This …