Agriculture experts have advised the farmers to cultivate off-season vegetables in tunnels as the tunnel cultivation can increase their income manifolds in addition to mitigate financial constraints of the peasants. A spokesman of the...
Pakistan’s Federal Minister of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Sahibzada Muhammad Mehboob Sultan, said on Wednesday that joint ventures and B2B cooperation between Pakistan and China in agriculture will help Pakistan...
President Dr Arif Alvi has stressed the need to adopt modern agricultural techniques with the support of China to improve the country’s agricultural sector. Addressing Pak-China Agricultural Cooperation Forum in Islamabad on Wednesday, Dr...
The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) on Tuesday urged the government to declare an emergency for arresting rapidly falling cotton production. It also sought a ban on cultivation of paddy and sugarcane as well as...
Pakistan, as an agricultural country can manufacture and utilize biochar-based fertilizer by using the straw biomass as a raw material to further enhance its agriculture production and protect environment, a Chinese soil scientist said....
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, with over 60% rural population, is blessed with a variety of agro-ecological zones well suited for agro-pastoral and poultry production. Livestock contributes 56% to value addition in agriculture and nearly 11% to...
“We’re finished, nothing is left!” says farmer Vikram Meghwar pointing to millet stalks raided by swarms of locusts. Like others in the village of Amarhar in Umerkot district, at the edge of the Tharparkar...
No respite was witnessed in upward march on the cotton market on Monday in the process of hectic trading activity, dealers said. The official spot rate was higher by Rs 100 to Rs 9300,...
ICE cotton futures inched lower on Monday amid expectations of a large crop of the natural fiber as harvest progresses in the United States, while investors awaited further clarity on the US-China trade negotiations....
KARACHI: The cotton market turned bullish on Monday as buyers chased quality lot which helped lint price to stay on higher side. Short supply of quality cotton, however, restricted activity and many textile spinning...
