KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Thursday as buyers kept looking for quality lots. At the outset, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Reap holds awards ceremony in Dubai to promote rice exports
LAHORE – With a view to promote rice exports and acknowledge the contribution of world buyers of Pakistani rice, the …
Ban imposed on early sowing of cotton
MULTAN – Assistant Director Agriculture Naveed Asmat Kohloon has said that Punjab agriculture department has imposed ban on cultivation of cotton till the …
Govt-set rate continues to elude sugarcane farmers
ISLAMABAD – Sugarcane farmers continued to suffer as the mill owners are not paying them as per government announced rate . The farmers have …
Textile exports increase 7.2pc to $7.73bn in the last seven months
KARACHI: Pakistan’s textile exports surged by 2.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to $1.085 billion in January 2018 compared to $1.064 billion …
Farmers urged to purchase certified cotton seeds only
The Punjab Agriculture Department Tuesday urged farmers to purchase only certified cotton seeds for a bumper production. The farmers should …
Project to promote gram cultivation in Thal
LAHORE: The Punjab government has started a project in thal area for the promotion of gram cultivation with the help of sprinkle irrigation system. Agriculture (Water Management) …
Seed Certification Dept gets 16 proposals of hybrid rice
ISLAMABAD – National Coordinator on Rice Crop of Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has presented the working papers of all …