LAHORE: Urea off-take for the month of January 2018 clocked in at 539,000 tons in line with initial estimates, reporting a rise of 33 …
Experts laud China’s role in transforming Pak energy sector
BEIJING – Experts here spoke high of China’s decisive role in transforming Pakistan’s energy sector, as well as boosting the country’s overall …
Russia Gets Another Market for its Wheat After Deal With Iran
Iran is giving Russia another market to offload its massive wheat harvest. The Persian Gulf nation has agreed to buy …
Agriculture Department Offers 60% Subsidy On Drip Irrigation System In Multan
MULTAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 08th Mar, 2018 ):The Agriculture department urged farmers to install drip irrigation system in their …
K-P completes 445 water schemes in southern districts
ISLAMABAD: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government was spending about Rs9 billion on provision of clean drinking water schemes in southern districts of the province. …
Programme launched for date farming
BAHAWALPUR – Punjab government has launched 5-year crash programme for improved plantation and production of dates under which date trees would be planted …
Rice exporters demand industry status
LAHORE – The Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) has asked the government to declare the rice sector as an industry and provide it all incentives in …
China to lift over 10 mln people out of poverty in 2018
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China will further reduce the poor rural population by over 10 million, including 2.8 million …
Swat to soon become lucrative market for trout
MINGORA: Officials of the fisheries department have claimed that production of trout fish will soon surge to 240,000 kilogrammes annually …
Sugar industry faces low-price challenge
Karim Bakhsh Malik, Dr Muhammad Ijaz Tabassum Sugarcane has the largest industrial base after cotton in agricultural sector of Pakistan. …
Punjab govt offers subsidy on cotton seeds
MULTAN:- The Punjab government is extending subsidy of billions of rupees on recommended varieties of cotton seed. According to assistant director agriculture (information) Naveed …