ARGETS for two cash crops – cotton and rice – have been fixed at lessthan what the country achieved last year, leave alone bumper andrecord yields of the past.This year, cotton target has come down to 13.3 million bales againstlast…
NO support price for rice crop has been announced while the Kharif season has entered its third month. I have planted rice seedlings on just 20 out of my 45 acres. I am indecisive whether or not to cultivate more…
Pakistan exported about 2.9 million tonnes of rice in the 2008/09 financial year, down from 3.3 million tonnes the previous year, and a possible water shortage has raised concern for the new crop, an industry official said on Wednesday. Government data showed rice exports fell nearly 8…
INADEQUATE grain storage capacity in the public sector departments can cost the country greatly as a major chunk of the procured wheat will be kept in the open or it will be at the mercy of private warehouses. The inability…
THE Economic Committee of the Cabinet decided in October to increase the support price of wheat by Rs15 per 40kg to Rs415 against the previous year’s Rs400. Presumably, this has been done to help increase production and incomes of farmers.…
Agricultural use of genetically modified (GM) crops across the world has increased almost seventy fold in the past ten years and is set to double by 2015, says a study released by The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech…
Every year when the cotton crop is close to the harvesting stage, speculations about its size commence and so does fluctuation of the price of cotton seed in the market. Farmers are placed under pressure before the crop’s arrival in…
Introduction The most important constraint to high maize yield is the lack of quality of hybrid seed. Currently, about 20% of the maize area in the country is planted to imparted hybrid seeds. Because the indigenous hybrids are produced locally,…
It is surprising that in the manifestos of various political parties, not much attention has been paid to the problems and challenges faced by the agriculture sector. In the 24- member of the cabinet, no one was given the portfolio…
It’s an open secret now for five years, Indian traders have been passing off a lower quality rice,CSR-30, as the world’s finest long grained aromatic rice, basmati, in key markets like the US, Canada and the EU, and this with…
