FAISALABAD: Experts at a seminar held in connection with the World Food Day on Monday said heavy migration from rural to …
Pakistan offers lowest bid for Iraq’s rice tender
HAMBURG: The lowest price offer in the tender from Iraq’s state grains buyer to purchase at least 30,000 tonnes of …
New combines, grain carts come to US market
Whether you are in the midst of harvest or have all your harvest equipment cleaned up and parked for the …
Technology continues to boost efficiency in cotton
U.S. cotton growers always hope that higher production input costs are countered by improved fiber prices but that’s not been …
Chitral — the potential hub of temperate fruits
By Shamoon Sadiq Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Board (PHDEB) was established in August 2002 as an autonomous body under …
Value addition in floriculture
By Dr Adnan Younis & Dr Atif Riaz VALUE-added floriculture is a process of increasing the economic value and consumer …
Scope of olive cultivation in Pakistan
By Muhammad Shoaib Ahmedani*, Shehbaz Ahmed Warraich** *Ph.D. Scholar, department of Entomology, UAAR. ** Dean Faculty of Crop and Food …
Existing germplasm of ber in Punjab
By Miss Naseem Sharif (Research Officer) Horticultural Research Institute, AARI Faisalabad Ber (Zyzyphus mauritiana) is called apple of desert and …
Bougainvillea: A potential ornamental plant
By Gulzar Akhtar (Institute of Horticultural Sciences, UAF) Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd) belongs to the family Nyctaginaceae, which is composed …
Profitability of summer vegetables
By Muhammad Waqas Alam Chattha, Khuda Bakhsh & Asif Maqbool WITH continuous increase in population, Pakistan is facing food security …
Encouraging vegetable cultivation
By Khuda Bakhsh and Dr. M. Ashfaq Poverty in Pakistan, specially in its rural areas, is deep and widespread. One …