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The unmaking of national crop insurance scheme
Firozuddin Ahmed Faridi
The balloon of the "National Crop Insurance Scheme" is once
again up in the air. It is, therefore, in, and of, public
interest to narrate the long and painful tale of this Scheme.
WTO: rationalizing the tariff
M Yawar Irfan Khan
The WTO is round the corner now. Its possible impact on all
sectors of the economy and steps to safe guard our interests
are in need of immediate attention.
Hazy Sindh agri-scenario
Siraj-ul-Hasan
Prime Minister Jamali in his address to the nation among other
issues made a pointed reference to the agricultured situation
in the country being not very happy.
Home pharmaceutical industry
Zeeshan-ul- Rub jaffri
Today, we can be proud of the hi-tech, essential and high
quality national pharmaceutical industry, which has
significance for the country in terms of self-reliance to a
great extent.
Brain drain affecting Agri Dept research work
Dispelling fears expressed by a section of Gwadar residents,
the Balochistan governor and chief minister have done well to
reassure the local people that the building of a new port in
Gwadar will create better job opportunities and other means of
income for them.
Smuggling of foreign cigarettes into the country
Khan
Faraz
Though tobacco cultivation occupies a small area of 0.27
percent of the total irrigated land in the country and 3
percent in NWFP, it is of great significance as a source of
revenue, employment and foreign exchange earnings to the
country.
Risks to poverty reduction strategy
In a Joint Staff Assessment report handed over to the
government on 9th April, 2003, the World Bank and the IMF have
urged the authorities to end "political opposition to their
reform agenda" in order to ensure continuation of commitment
to the economic policies framed in consultation with them.
From Doha to Cancun: WTO impact on Pakistan
Asim Azam
Pakistan agreed to join the WTO in 1994, one of the benefits
of which is the integration of the textile sector into GATT.
When we look at 2005, some of us assume that the only WTO
impact on Pakistan would be in textile sector , which is not
correct, as 2005 will have implications in many areas, of
which one is textile.
How pollution is a brake on dairy industry?
Shahid Husain
Seventeen units, including three run by multinational
companies, are engaged in the manufacture of dairy products in
Pakistan, but environmental pollution, as well as an
inadequate supply chain, is hampering the growth of the dairy
industry. Noise pollution is one of the factors.
Another horticulture board
According to a report, the government has
established the Pakistan Horticulture Development Board (PHDB)
with a view to enhancing the export of horticulture products.
Drought pushes Ethiopian coffee farmers into poverty
Tsegaye Tadesse
Meyomuna Hassan Ali recalls with nostalgia the days when she
and her family collected a rich coffee harvest from their farm
in eastern Ethiopia.
Farmers need to concentrate on production technology
Hadi Bux Leghari
Pakistan is a country where every
body has a right to do what he/she thinks is a right. The
growing community of Pakistan is always highlighting the
problems but never tried to find the solutions. Unfortunately
our polictical outfit is beyond the real life they never ever
put a process that help farmers, their rhetoric does not
matching with their practices. Agriculture of Pakistan is
facing with enormous difficulties that begins from Moen-jo-daro
to date.
Who is responsible for the NDP's failure?
Sikander Brohi
Agriculture is Pakistan's most important sector providing
livelihood to majority of the population and playing a pivotal
role in food security, employment and income generation.
Field rats: new menace to sunflower crop
Shaukat Ali Bhambhro
The main oilseed crops of Pakistan are rape and mustard, tory
jambho, sesamum, castor and linseed. These oilseed crops have
been grown traditionally and are known as conventional oilseed
crops.
Will larger foreign loans reduce poverty?
Sultan
Ahmed
Will heavy and accelerated borrowing from international
financial agencies to reduce the pervasive poverty in Pakistan
bring real relief to the very poor?
Transforming ADBP into ZTBL and its performance
A.K.
Sial
The decision of transforming
Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP) to Zarai
Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) has invigorated the expectations
of the growers towards the bank as they perceive that this
step has been taken to introduce revolutionary changes in the
bank and all the bottlenecks in smooth supply of agriculture
credit and other problems associated with the bank would be
removed forthwith.
Steps needed for developing wood-work industry
Siraj-ul-Hasan
The Pakistan government has been taking a number of steps to
give a fillip to export. But these efforts are mainly
restricted to increase the traditional exports of agricultural
products and items being manufactured by big industrial units.
Kalabagh Dam again
Coming on the eve of the inauguration of Chotiari Water
Reservoir near Sanghar in Sindh, the demand raised by a Punjab
government representative at the meeting of the Indus River
System Authority for construction of the abandoned Kalabagh
Dam, will sound unpropitious, to say the least.
Congo fever again
Playing with their goats during the recent Eidul Azha proved
fatal for two brothers, one aged three and the other five, who
are suspected to have died from the deadly tick-borne disease
commonly known as Congo Fever at the Holy Family Hospital in
Rawalpindi on Tuesday.
Is premature ageing the fate of cloned animals?
Prof. Hasan Khan
Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal, has
been put to death after being diagnosed with progressive lung
disease. The decision to end the life of six years old Dolly
was made after a veterinary examination that confirmed the
lung disease. She was given a lethal injection that put her to
sleep. Results of her post mortem were awaited till the
writing of this article.
Irrigation water shortage
Although Monday's countrywide rains have come as a relief to
anxious farmers, the threat of a water shortage hitting the
wheat and sugarcane crops is still looming. The wheat crop at
this crucial stage needs irrigation till mid-March.
State corps: looking beyond professionalisation
Mohammad
Talha
Among a series of reforms introduced by the government since
1998 to revive the economy, there is a growing pressure on the
government sponsored/owned organisations to look for ways to
run them on professional management lines and reduce
dependence and guidance from the respective government
departments for strategic direction.
Sindh to face water shortage for Rabi crops
The overall water shortage in Sindh seems to be exceeding the
government projection of 29.4 percent and may reach 66 percent
like last year.
Discord over Baglihar
The departure on Thursday of the Indian members of the
Permanent Indus Commission without reaching an agreement with
their Pakistani counterparts over the controversial Baglihar
power project on the Chenab river in India, was a sad
development.
A look at global state of fish stocks
David J.Doulman
In his opening address at the 2001 Reykjavik Conference on
Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem, Jacques Diouf,
Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
of the United Nations (FAO), summarised as follows the state
of world fisheries.
Who will buy the short cotton crop idea?
Muhammad Aslam
Whether the current crop is short, or the mill demand has
risen manifold, is a question being debated in cotton circles
for the last couple of weeks, sans consensus as opinions are
widely divided.
Chotiyari reservoir concerns
A documentary film screened recently in Karachi on the
under-construction Chotiyari reservoir on the Indus in Sanghar
district makes a strong case for paying more serious attention
to the repercussions of the project in both human and
ecological terms.
Adulterated food items
One long-standing problem staring the authorities in the face
is the growing number of adulterated food items of everyday
use that have proliferated in the market. These include
spices, tea, edible oil, ghee, bottled water and other
household items of daily use.
Instant gardens
Zahrah Nasir
Creating a beautiful and durable garden is a time consuming
process but, sadly, a process which many people have
absolutely no patience with. They want a garden that grows
instantly.
Sugarcane price controversy
M A Siddiqui
Almost daily there is a report about the controversy over the
cane price payable in the province of Sindh. Mills started
late this year and a few mills in upper Sindh are not
functioning for a few days due to growers agitation and
non-supply. This is causing dissatisfaction as well as
financial loss to both farmers as well as millers.
A
dual facet technology for sustainable agriculture
Miss Shaharoona
Sustainability in agriculture has become the cherished goal of
the policy makers and economic gurus all over the world.
Without the realization of the dream of sustainable
agriculture and environment, the rising domestic demand for
food and fiber and international dynamism cannot be chased.
Exporting Kinoo with proper packaging
M.M. Nazri
A few weeks ago a news item appeared in the Press that Kinoo
exporters (EPB) are falling. There was a controversy that
Kinoo should be packed in cartons or wooden boxes: Export
Promotion Bureau was asking the Kinoo exporters to send the
former in paper or in cartons.
Maximising sunflower production
Siraj-ul-Hasan
Pakistan is disappointingly deficit in edible oil. Efforts
have been afoot since long to bring about increase in the
production of traditional oilseeds like rapeseed/mustered and
cottonseed, being the main sources of obtaining edible oil.
Crucial economic issues
Mohammed Akmal Pasha
The crucial economic issues are
interwoven, well established and well known. Their root cause
happens to be dearth of vision, foresight and sincerity on the
part of economic managers, or it could be possible to
forestall their potential onslaught and avert the blitz.
Crying need to resolve sugar crisis
The demand of Sindh Chamber of Agriculture and the Sindh
Abadgar Board for handing over erring sugar mills in the
province to the professionals, coming in the midst of
intensified demonstrations by the growers, underlines the
urgent need of retrieving the sugar economy from the crisis it
has been left trapped in rather too long.
Poverty reduction efforts in Pakistan
The Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Dr Ishrat Hussain,
while addressing a workshop on the Pakistan Poverty Assessment
Report of the World Bank, disclosed that a policy paper
prepared by the government after extensive studies and
consultations during the last three years, would shortly be
adopted as a strategy framework for combating and reducing
poverty in Pakistan.
Water crisis biggest challenge for Pakistan
Water crisis looming on Pakistan is the biggest challenge
being faced by Pakistan for the last four years, which needs
to be adequately addressed for the agricultural development
and to meet the irrigation needs of the country.
Prospects of tea cultivation in Pakistan
Siraj-ul-Hasan
Presently Pakistan is meeting its entire tea requirements
through imports till 1971 it had a surplus because of
production of this commodity in the Eastern Wing (then known
as East Pakistan) in great volumes.
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