technology in agriculture

Top Story Wheat, Rice & Sugar supplies are adequate: PARC Planning according to food security is included in our priorities � Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad PakAgriFarming News Week Vol. 04 (Cover) Chairman Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC), Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad has said that we are planning according to the requirements of food security in the country. He added that wheat, rice and sugar is available in adequate supplies in the countries at the moment and in the next phase we are attempting to introduce high yielding oilseed crops like olive in Baluchistan, FATA, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan, AJK, D.I Khan and Sindh, for this purpose plants are being imported from Italy and machinery is also being imported from France for processing. PARC is also working to improve crop research on usage of sewage water from household and this has been successfully being attempted in Chak Shahzad in Islamabad. 10 research papers have been published on this research, lemon has showed very good...

Top Story Textile Sector facing 300 million loss daily Punjab is facing worst energy crisis situation where industries have been denied of electricity and gas due to shortage basis. PakAgriFarming News Week Vol. 03 (Cover) The worsening situation continues as the Pakistan ready made garments manufacturers and exporters associations made a statement that textile sector and specially ready made garment industry is facing worst situation as the textile industry is being denied of gas and electricity. Garments industry is basically a small and middle scale industry and they are heavily affected by this energy crisis all over Pakistan and specially in Punjab where the textile sector is totally being denied of gas and electric power. It was also stated that due to this situation Pakistan is not fully exploiting they free duty export treaty with European Union (EU) and also the sector could also provided 100 thousand jobs which is not seeming possible at this moment of time. News 02 Ginners w...

Top Story Cotton Markets stable despite Energy Crisis The continued cuts in the supply of electricity and gas to the cotton mills will result in collapse of cotton industry: PCGA. PakAgriFarming News Week vol. 02 (Cover) Last week there was sudden breakdown of power supply to the cotton mills due to which there were piles of raw cotton in the stores and the purchase were static. Even in this situation the price of cotton did not drop and a slight increase was seen in the prices. Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has warned that if such situation prolongs there will be worse consequences to the cotton farmers because the mills will not be able to purchase if energy crisis continues. In the recent times, the gap of energy production has only widened and the government is not keen to solve the problems of the major sector of national economy. News 02 Urea and DAP sales up by 40% & 35% in 2012 Price incentives helped to keep the sale of urea and DAP at 445,000 and 248,000 tons...

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