Category Pak Agri Outlook

Before your next meal, think of this short grace: “In back of the bread is the farmer, and in back of the farmer is the mill, and in back of the mill is the wind and the rain and the…

The use of sewage in the cultivation of vegetables is causing a number of diseases, including hepatitis and cancer. Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Scientists Association President Dr Mohammad Altaf Sher told Dawn that the use of sewage is hazardous…

First and foremost, many gardeners tend to forget that soil is a living, breathing, mass comprising literally millions of organisms, bacteria, fungi, particles of sand / rock and assorted plant material which are broken-down and combined into what we know…

Groundbreaking water research out of the University of Saskatchewan has just been published in the international science journal Nature. Researchers Jaivime Evaristo and Dr. Jeffrey McDonnell of from the U. of S. and Scott Jasechko of the University of Calgary…

“All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all. The laws and provisions of nature whereby the greatest amount of good is obtained, and by which the animal…

LAST month, the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council gave a go-ahead for the commercial cultivation of two newly developed hybrid varieties of fodder crops. The Parc has developed and tested these two varieties in pilot projects before finding them feasible for…

With time, whole of the world seems to work for the beneficiary of environment, so that sustainable development can be achieved and the future generation can actually make use of the natural resources. Apart from governmental and non – governmental…

There have always been talks about the need for conservation of natural resources. And the resource which tops this list of natural resources whose conservation is the need of the hour is nothing but fuels. Fuels, as most people know…

The reality of today’s world is that we live in a consumerist, globalized and extremely interdependent global network of world economics. We live in a world where consumerist tendencies are encouraged and induced, and in fact your level of consumption…

Extreme temperatures, an erratic monsoon which appears to have moved in a northerly direction — as was also reported when the 2010 flooding disaster occurred — serious drought conditions in Thar and an increasing shortage of potable water everywhere, are…