The wheat is sown the world over on an area touching 220 million hectares producing 600 million tons with an …
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 …
Baby corn — a commercial vegetable
BABY corn, the newly developed corn, is used as a vegetable in many Asian countries. It is used as an …
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 …
Basmati Rice, Finest Rice from Pakistan
BASMATI RICE “The finest rice is from Pakistan whatever the brand name.” Pakistan is the producer of the world’s finest …
SunFlower
Introduction The sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., belongs to the family compositae. The genus name Helianthus is derived from Greek helios …
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 …