Development of Bt Cotton For Biosafety In Pakistan
By: By; Shehzad Ahmad Kang, and Frasat Saeed, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. The …
Use of spurious pesticides on cotton crop rampant
By Shaukat Ali Bhambhro In Pakistan the pesticide business has an annual turnover of around Rs 12 billions to Rs …
Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a common-sense method that builds on practices that farmers have used for centuries, for example, using …
Pests & Farm Chemicals
Major Insecticides are given below with their time of attack and recommended Pesticides and dosage. It is hoped that this …
Improving cotton yield
By Bilal Hassan COTTON is an important cash crop and lifeline of textile industry. It accounts for 8.2 per cent …
Why cotton is a problematic crop?
By Muhammad Amjad Ali & Dr Iftikhar Ahmad Khan COTTON, which is also known as ‘white gold’, is an important …
Late Harvest effecting Cotton Crop
Non-perennial canals mainly feeding the core cotton areas started running on May 5 instead of April 15, causing a loss …
Barriers in the textile exports
For about three dozen top groups, textiles still offers a lot of business prospects despite difficulties. But for many industrialists …
Cotton Match: Pakistan versus India
KARACHI: Pakistan was born in 1947 with a smaller base of textile industry consuming only 78,000 bales of 170-kgs each …
Growing cotton in prevailing drought
Ignacio Rodrmguez Iturbe of Venezuela won the Stockholm Water Prize, 2002 for his scientific contribution to the understanding of the …
Cotton Crop Estimate Lower Than Targeted
Pakistan is going to miss it’s cotton target for the fifth consecutive year this season. Islamabad has revised its production …