Agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, contributing 21.3% to the GDP in FY2018. The sector employs 45.3% of the country’s workforce and is a major source of export earnings. However, agriculture in Pakistan is facing a number of challenges.…
Author: Muhammad Sohaib E-mail: [email protected] Modernization is the most important tool which we are using in modern agriculture. In the world, food scarcity, labour shortage, and high cost from cultivation to harvesting has become serious issues. There must be some…
Malik Farooq Hayata, Muhammad Awaisa, Hafiz Muhammad Bilalb* a. Shalimar Group of Companies Sargodha, Pakistan b. Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Pakistan Real Estate in Pakistan is a growing sector of the economy of Pakistan. Pakistan spends $5.2 billion…
I remember as a freshman in high school, sitting in my agriculture classroom with five paragraphs laid out on paper in front of me. I was told to memorize it. Half the words rang true and deep to my 14-year-old…
SOURCES OF WATER God has blessed Pakistan with abandoned water resources, with water flowing down the Himalayas and Karakorum heights, from the world’s largest glaciers, a free and unique bounty of nature for this land of alluvial plains. As a…
Myths get in the way of our ability to restore degraded soils that can feed the world using fewer chemicals One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it…
Water is the most important element necessary for human beings, animals, insects, plants and for earth as a whole. Sources of water available in Pakistan are rainfall, surface water available in rivers and underground water. After the Indus Basin Treaty…
We know how agriculture contributes to economic development and then how industry contributes towards development. However, the issue of choice of one sector over the other remains unresolved as far as economic policy is concerned. Truly speaking, these two sectors…
According to a report, Pakistan’s agricultural product efficiency lies between 29% and 52%, which is very low as compared to the rest of the world. Pakistan vs the World Wheat Pakistan generates only 3.1 tons of wheat from one hectare…
This year will likely be the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. As temperatures continue to rise and extreme weather events such as droughts and floods become more frequent, farmers face more unpredictable and difficult growing conditions.…