KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Thursday as buyers kept looking for quality lots. At the outset, …
Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa game for power production, transmission
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Monday offered the provinces to take over full responsibility of electricity and gas production, transmission …
Billion-tree tsunami — confronting falsehood
Pakistan is a country blessed with the bounties of nature. However, it has been under increasing ecological, and associated economic stress …
Council to achieve Cotton Mission 2025
LAHORE – The stakeholders of cotton supply chain have constituted a Council of Cotton Stakeholders to finalise a joint strategy on achieving cottonproduction targets set under the Cotton Mission …
Tarbela extension project starts power generation
LAHORE – Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) achieved yet another landmark towards energy security of the country, as Tarbela 4th Extension Hydropower Project started …
Call to promote pulses, edible oil crops farming
FAISALABAD – The country is importing pulses and edible oil worth billions of rupees that can be saved by increasing per acre productivity and promoting …
Crops Are Harvested Without Human Input, Teasing the Future of Agriculture
Hands Free Hectare (HFH) is a company based in the United Kingdom that set out to develop automated agriculture — …
From Russia, With Love: Wheat for Half the World
Russian food exports are skyrocketing thanks to the world’s appetite for the country’s wheat. Food shipments from the Black Sea …
Future of precision agriculture is about to take flight
In the late ’90s and early 2000s Southeast Community College instructor Rich Douglass mounted cameras to a kite and began …
Safety of Bumblebee for pollination urged
National pollinator day was observed in Barani Agricultural Research Institute, Chakwal with objective to disseminate awareness among masses about the …
Foreign firms charge exorbitant price for seeds
LAHORE – Multinational companies involved in Pakistan’s seed business sell their products to farmers at much higher rates as compared …