tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64346603085868356612024-03-17T20:03:37.021-07:00Agriculture Information BankAgriculture, Agribusiness, Hydroponic, Farming, Agriculture Information Bank, agrinfobank.com, Livestock, Pakistan, AgriNews, GardeningAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266100088922003038noreply@blogger.comBlogger950125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-16556628785975836662014-08-11T01:28:00.000-07:002014-08-11T01:28:38.836-07:00Nawabshah canal breach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A 100 feet break in channel close Daur submerged standing products on many sections of land of area and immersed five towns here on Friday. Watering system division said the spouting water from the 100-ft wide break in Gujrawah waterway close Daur town entered into Akhtar Jatoi, Imambakhsh Brohi, Somer Marri, Khair Mohammad Marri and Sharif Kambo towns, while standing yields on several sections of land of area have been immersed. <br /><br />Nawabshah Street has likewise been submerged under breaking trench water influencing street movement to Sukkur. The populace of the influenced territories have begun moving to more secure spots. Watering system office's staff in the wake of having data arrived at the site and began the work of stopping the rupture.</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266100088922003038noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-12665962085720190062014-08-11T01:06:00.001-07:002014-08-11T01:06:43.634-07:00Sip, Savor and Swap<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you are avoiding common food allergens like wheat and diary, have dietary restrictions such as vegetarianism, or are following a popular eating plan such as the Paleo Diet, customized nutrition isn’t always as easy as just opening the refrigerator or wandering down the aisles of your local grocery store. Sometimes, you need to get creative when searching for food replacements to use in your recipes and cooking. Here are some suggestions to spark ideas on food replacements and substitutions when cooking for someone with a food allergy or a dietary restriction
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.nowfoods.com/idc/groups/public/documents/digital_asset/100938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.nowfoods.com/idc/groups/public/documents/digital_asset/100938.jpg" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266100088922003038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-50165322362817790832014-05-26T00:47:00.000-07:002014-05-26T00:59:04.415-07:00Rose Rosette Disease<p align="justify"><font size="4">Rose rosette disease is an untreatable rose disease caused by the <em>Rose rosette virus </em>(RRV), and is spread and introduced into the rose during feeding by the rose leaf curl mite (<em>Phyllocoptes fructiplilus</em>). This extremely small eriophyid mite feeds on cell sap of the tender stems and leaf petioles. The rose leaf curl mite alone causes little damage while feeding, but if it is a carrier of RRV, symptoms begin to appear in the rose typically within one to three months.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Roses exhibit reddened terminal growth on infected branches, and the stems become thicker and more succulent than those on unaffected parts of the plant. These stems exhibit an abnormally high number of pliable thorns, which may be either green or red. Rose leaves that develop on infected branches are smaller than normal and may be deformed similarly to herbicide injury by 2,4-D. Lateral branches may grow excessively from main stems and create a witch’s broom symptom quite like glyphosate (Roundup™) injury on roses. Flowering is reduced, and the petals may be distorted and fewer in number. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><img title="Rose with Rose Rosette Disease" style="float: left; display: inline" alt="Rose with Rose Rosette Disease" src="http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/graphics/2106/rose_rosette_disease.jpg" width="300" align="left" height="243" /> <br />Rose with Rose Rosette Disease showing symptoms of  reddened new growth, thicker stem, excessive thorns, and smaller leaves. <br />Meg Williamson, Plant Problem Clinic, Clemson University</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">These symptoms generally become evident in the late spring to early summer and progress during the growing season. Once the rose becomes infected, RRV moves throughout the plant and the entire plant is infectious. By the time symptoms are evident in a rose, it already may have spread to adjacent plants by the movement of the eriophyid mites. Infected plants typically die within a couple of years.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><strong>Prevention & Treatment:</strong> The wild multiflora rose is very susceptible to the rose rosette disease, so any nearby wild plants should be removed and promptly disposed. Any infected, cultivated roses should be immediately removed, then burned or bagged. Also remove any roots, which might re-sprout later. Do not leave an uprooted infected plant in the garden, as the mites may leave this rose for other nearby plants. Always space rose plants so they do not touch.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Because RRV is systemic within the infected rose plants, grafting asymptomatic stems onto other rose plants will transmit the virus. Pruners used on diseased plants must be disinfested with rubbing alcohol or a dilute bleach solution before being used on uninfected plants, as sap on the pruners is contaminated with the virus. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">To reduce the spread of the eriophyid mites from the site of an infected rose, nearby roses can be treated with a bifenthrin spray every two weeks between April and September. This may prevent additional plants from becoming diseased. Examples of products containing bifenthrin are Hi-Yield Bug Blaster Bifenthrin 2.4 Concentrate or Ready-to-Spray, Hi-Yield Bug Blaster II Turf Termite & Ornamental Insect Control Concentrate, and Ortho Bug-B-Gon Max Lawn & Garden Insect Killer Concentrate. Check product labels for the correct active ingredient. Follow label directions for use.</font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-78577272755157685032014-05-25T08:16:00.000-07:002014-05-25T08:57:26.719-07:00Beekeeping: Profiting From A Gold Mine<p align="justify"><font size="4">If you look at fields full of flowering crops or wild flowers in the countryside, or at garden and park flowers in the cities, you are not only looking at beauty but also at gold – thousands of tons of valuable honey. Liquid gold sitting there, all for you! If you don’t go and get it, the flowers will die at the end of the season and all those tons of honey will go to waste. All that money will simply have dried up in front of your eyes. If, on the other hand, you have bees, they will go and get it for you for free, and you can then either eat it or sell it or both.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Bees are probably the only livestock that use other people’s land without permission – and those landowners welcome them. It is a win-win situation for the bee and for everyone else. Your bees are happy carrying out their work; you can enjoy your hobby or business, and if you want to you can make a profit; the farmers get their crops pollinated and so they make a profit; the shops obtain food to sell and they make a profit; the general public have food to eat; and the government is happy that its agricultural and environmental sectors are running smoothly and that somewhere along the line they will be able to raise some tax.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-EsIf7uwh90Q/U4IQ9JJSB8I/AAAAAAAAA4U/3bXRQ2fVY98/s1600-h/Beekeeping%252520Profiting%252520From%252520A%252520Gold%252520Mine%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Beekeeping Profiting From A Gold Mine: agrinfobank.com" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Beekeeping Profiting From A Gold Mine" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-CQaq6n6xHvw/U4IRfGSEbhI/AAAAAAAAA4c/0wglr6T608M/Beekeeping%252520Profiting%252520From%252520A%252520Gold%252520Mine_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" align="left" height="320" /></a>Don’t forget that governments regard the whole set-up as so important that they are willing to spend millions on ensuring that the status quo does not change and that nothing happens to harm it. Recent research in the USA has valued crops that require pollination by honey-bees at an estimated $24 billion annually, and the value of commercial bee pollination on contracts at around $10 billion annually. These are huge figures by any standard and they show that bees are big business.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Honey sale value, on the other hand, is much less, at $285 million annually in the USA. However, now that hard clinical trials are showing that certain types of honey can provide antibiotic wound treatments more effectively and with fewer side-effects than conventional treatments, this non-pollination side of beekeeping has become a rapidly growing industry. Active manuka honey has been shown to beat the MRSA super-bug with no side-effects to the patient and is used in burn dressings. Buckwheat honey has been found in clinical trials to be more effective as a cough treatment than many over-the-counter cough medicines. Honey is no longer old Gran’s remedy for colds or an ‘alternative’ therapy. It is now a mainstream medicine available on national health systems and used in hospitals in the UK, the USA and other countries.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">But bees sting, don’t they? And that hurts, doesn’t it? Other than producing honey, bees are best known for their tendency to sting on sight. In fact, it is not in a bee’s interest to sting for the sake of it because they die in the process and they will avoid doing so unless in defence of their nest, which of course is why beekeepers are stung. All beekeepers will be stung during their beekeeping careers. This is a fact and it is also a fact that it is painful. But it is not very painful and the pain doesn’t last for long.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-OIpPZi5ayYM/U4IR-wlR87I/AAAAAAAAA4k/qfeReqGXvDk/s1600-h/article1%25255B6%25255D.png"><img title="Beekeeping: Profiting From A Gold Mine: agrinfobank.com" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Beekeeping: Profiting From A Gold Mine" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iQ-UAA0i7oc/U4ISwvBXIoI/AAAAAAAAA4w/A5DcOdISqyc/article1_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="579" height="223" /></a>Bee sting ‘cures’ rely on this fact. By the time you apply the patented bee-sting cure bought from the snake oil stall at the market (which, technically, can’t cure anything unless it’s an anaesthetic), the pain would be just about to disappear anyway.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Most beekeepers will tell you that bee stings are more or less of no concern to them and that, if you are well clothed and use calm bees, stings will be few and far between. For a very few, however, there is a danger. Allergy to insect venom does exist and can be fatal if the person stung goes into anaphylactic shock. This is extremely rare, however, and one statistic indicates that you are more likely to die from a horse falling on you than from a bee sting. Because there is a very remote possibility of suffering a fatal allergic reaction, many beekeepers carry with them an epi-pen injector for emergency use. This requires a prescription in most countries.</font></p> Tags: <a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Gold" rel="Tag">Gold</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Mine" rel="Tag">Mine</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/flowers" rel="Tag">flowers</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/countryside" rel="Tag">countryside</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/garden" rel="Tag">garden</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/park" rel="Tag">park</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/tons" rel="Tag">tons</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/honey" rel="Tag">honey</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Liquid" rel="Tag">Liquid</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/money" rel="Tag">money</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Bees" rel="Tag">Bees</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/livestock" rel="Tag">livestock</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/permission" rel="Tag">permission</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/situation" rel="Tag">situation</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/hobby" rel="Tag">hobby</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/food" rel="Tag">food</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/government" rel="Tag">government</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/status" rel="Tag">status</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Recent" rel="Tag">Recent</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/figures" rel="Tag">figures</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/sale" rel="Tag">sale</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/industry" rel="Tag">industry</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Active" rel="Tag">Active</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/MRSA" rel="Tag">MRSA</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Buckwheat" rel="Tag">Buckwheat</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/treatment" rel="Tag">treatment</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Gran" rel="Tag">Gran</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/therapy" rel="Tag">therapy</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/medicine" rel="Tag">medicine</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/health" rel="Tag">health</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/tendency" rel="Tag">tendency</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/fact" rel="Tag">fact</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/nest" rel="Tag">nest</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/pain" rel="Tag">pain</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Most" rel="Tag">Most</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/danger" rel="Tag">danger</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/Allergy" rel="Tag">Allergy</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/insect" rel="Tag">insect</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/venom" rel="Tag">venom</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/person" rel="Tag">person</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/statistic" rel="Tag">statistic</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/horse" rel="Tag">horse</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/reaction" rel="Tag">reaction</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/emergency" rel="Tag">emergency</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/prescription" rel="Tag">prescription</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/landowners" rel="Tag">landowners</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/sectors" rel="Tag">sectors</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/governments" rel="Tag">governments</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/treatments" rel="Tag">treatments</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/medicines" rel="Tag">medicines</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/systems" rel="Tag">systems</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/hospitals" rel="Tag">hospitals</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/careers" rel="Tag">careers</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/pollination" rel="Tag">pollination</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/billion" rel="Tag">billion</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cough" rel="Tag">cough</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/doesn" rel="Tag">doesn</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/beekeepers" rel="Tag">beekeepers</a> <br /> <p align="justify"><font size="4"></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-69735326773919451692014-04-17T04:13:00.001-07:002014-04-17T04:13:43.429-07:00Kharif crops: PPCBL begins disbursement of loans<p><font size="3">The Punjab Provincial Co-operative Bank has started disbursement of Rs 2.5 billion agriculture loans for sowing, growing and maturing of Kharif crops 2014 including cotton, rice, sugarcane, maize, vegetables, fodder and fruits orchards.</font></p> <p><font size="3">Source: <a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank">Business Recorder</a></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-78136281203786436452014-03-20T03:41:00.000-07:002014-03-20T03:53:38.890-07:00Grow your hanging gardens of Babylon<p align="justify"><font size="4">Certain forward-thinking people square measure reinventing farming as we all know it. Indoor, organic urban farms growing food vertically victimization husbandry and aquaponic principles, square measure maturation round the country. The push for different ways of raising food follow partially, on the heels of native governments outlawing owners from growing vegetable gardens in their yards, and forcing folks to tear out existing, healthy gardens. supplying the wheels of amendment square measure the county, state and central wittingly making an attempt to destroy the organic phenomenon with chemtrails, pesticides, growth hormones and GMOs, as they alter the terribly molecular nature of our food. These actions move the guts, stimulate rage, emotion and worry, and force humans to vary to survive or die.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7vr6XF1FAWw/UyrIo2Jl7mI/AAAAAAAAA30/0aTFKe6cKsw/s1600-h/grow%252520your%252520hanging%252520gardens%252520of%252520Babylon%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="grow your hanging gardens of Babylon" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="grow your hanging gardens of Babylon" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7UA3Nd7DI1w/UyrIqi9OQmI/AAAAAAAAA38/EQkj-ygYeK8/grow%252520your%252520hanging%252520gardens%252520of%252520Babylon_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="396" align="left" height="396" /></a>Looking for alternative routes to feed themselves and also the community, massive and little different husbandry ventures square measure shooting up all over. Smaller ventures like the Urban Hydro Project in state capital, Tennessee is that the farm-child of Jeffery Orkin; and his efforts square measure paying off. A demand community support in late 2012 raised over $3,300 in donations, enough cash for Orkin to shop for materials to increase his fledgling indoor organic garden on the highest floor of a domicile building in state capital. though the Urban Hydro Project has solely a hundred thirty five sq. feet of floor house, the space has twelve foot ceilings, and Orkin plans to plant to the ceiling. lovely organic vegetables square measure mature victimization farming, wherever no soil is employed. Orkin says this is often a additional economical methodology of production, and one that produces higher yields and higher tasting organic food year spherical.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">While the Urban Hydro Project continues to expand and thrive in state capital, FarmedHere up up outside of Chicago and claims the respect of being the most important indoor vertical farm within the U.S.. based by Jolanta Hardej, it's placed in a very Brobdingnagian ninety,000 square measure abandoned warehouse in Bedford Park, Illinois. Hardej had the vision as so much back as 2008 to grow contemporary, organic manufacture victimization aquaponic techniques, and no soil. Like Orkin, Hardej says the vegetables square measure higher tasting than once historically mature. Plants at FarmedHere square measure mature in multiple stacked levels and fed by mineral-rich water circulated throughout the system from fish tanks containing hormone-free genus Tilapia fish.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">FarmedeHere is trying to provide over a million pounds of contemporary, organic foliate greens, freed from chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, and GMOs.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Indoor farming provides property choices <br />As additional tight government rules square measure place in situ dominant individual freedoms, and larger efforts square measure created to change the essence of food by companies like Monsanto, the provision of organic, life-staining foods can diminish. because the air and land square measure poisoned chemically and different corrupting parts in a trial to marginalise life, different means that of growing food are going to be required for people who square measure willing to fight to survive the system.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Indoor husbandry comes like these et al round the country manufacture organic food year spherical, beneath excellent temperature, wetness and lighting conditions</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· because of the controlled growing atmosphere, indoor farms offer property agriculture for all -- the house gardener, native tailgate markets, and huge food chains such Whole Foods, inexperienced Grocery, and different massive grocery chains tightened organic foods</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Growing manufacture with farming is feasible for individual owners by fixing a special growing station in their homes, garages or sheds. Some vertical growing instrumentality is moveable and may be captive outside in hotter weather if desired.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Indoor vertical farming incorporates a little footprint, permitting people to grow food victimization aquaponics or farming off from curious government eyes. in addition, little or massive indoor community gardens square measure attainable in smaller-sized buildings, allowing teams to make gardens, purchase provides and share contemporary vegetables along.</font></p> <p><b>Sources for this article include:</b> <br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/farmedhere-nations-largest-vertical-farm_n_2933739.html?">http://www.huffingtonpost.com</a> <br /><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/697876208/urban-hydro-project-fresh-local-produce-year-round">http://www.kickstarter.com</a> <br /><a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/vertical-gardening-zm0z10zhun.aspx#axzz2OfHrn2SA">http://www.motherearthnews.com</a> <br /><a href="http://www.ugrosystems.com/">http://www.ugrosystems.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://www.hgtv.com">http://www.hgtv.com</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-27129690739825853672014-03-12T01:58:00.000-07:002014-03-12T06:54:18.065-07:00Diseases following fresh rainy spell<p align="justify"><font size="4">The Met Office on Tuesday advised farmers to ensure field sanitation and prophylactic fungicidal sprays to safeguard the standing crops from diseases following the fresh rainy spell. "Weeds are expected to shoot in excess after the rains. Farmers should control weeds growth soon after the rains," the office said in its 10-day advisory for farmers. <br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-yN6MglUiN3c/UyBnAolt9WI/AAAAAAAAA3c/Gl-3e_V0QXc/s1600-h/Diseases%252520following%252520fresh%252520rainy%252520spell%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img title="Diseases following fresh rainy spell" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Diseases following fresh rainy spell" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-kO3r0y7dFD0/UyBnBvYh5aI/AAAAAAAAA3k/-9NdXdvTMUU/Diseases%252520following%252520fresh%252520rainy%252520spell_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="244" /></a>It said the farmers should halt irrigating their crops since the continuing rainy spell provided sufficient water and asked the growers to plan irrigation keeping in view the likely rain in agricultural plains of the country. "Wheat crop is growing at Heading/Flowering/Milk Maturity stages in most of the agricultural plains of the country," it said, adding that farmers should step up to control further weeds growth to prevent negative impact on their crops. "Weeds removing practices should be started soon after expected rains in the mentioned areas," the office said. <br />It says wheat crop is growing at very crucial development stages of milk maturity/ wax maturity, in Sindh and Punjab province. "Farmers of these areas are advised to irrigate the crops as per requirement keeping expected rains in mind," it adds. Rainfall/ light snowfall over the hills and over upper and central parts of Punjab is expected in the next 10 days. It forecast rainfall for Sindh at isolated places during first five days of the advisory while dry weather is likely to prevail in its most parts till March 20. <br />It said rainfall/light snowfall over the hills and over upper and central parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is expected during the period. Rainfall is expected at isolated places of Balochistan during the first five days of the forecast period. In Gilgit-Baltistan, it said mainly cold and cloudy weather is expected in most parts. However, light to moderate rainfall (with snow over the hills) expected at isolated places during the period. In Kashmir, the office said cold and cloudy weather with rainfall/light snowfall over hills is expected in most parts. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Source: <a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank">Business Recorder</a> </font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-57990688480764669422014-03-11T02:15:00.001-07:002014-03-11T03:11:44.504-07:00Sindh has adequate wheat stock to meet existing demand<font size="4">Sindh province has adequate wheat stock to meet the existing demand till the arrival of next crop, traders said on Monday. Talking to <i>Business Recorder </i>they said that presently Sindh has some 0.113 million tons wheat stock in its godowns and recently the Sindh food department has also issued delivery orders of over 100,000 tons wheat quota to flour mills across the province. This quota will be sufficient for next 15 days. <br />"New wheat crop is almost ready in several parts of Sindh and regular supply is likely to arrive in next few days as harvesting has already begun in some districts", said Hashim Sharja Wala, a leading wheat trader. There is neither panic nor wheat crisis in the market as sufficient wheat stock is available in the province. Even wheat grain prices are stable at Rs 39,000 per ton from last one month, he added. <br />Presently, wheat is being traded at Rs 39,000 to Rs 39,250 per ton in open market, while Sindh food department is supplying commodity to flour mills at a price of Rs 30,000 per ton, he mentioned. With the arrival of new crop, wheat grain prices in the domestic market are likely to face a drastic cut in next few weeks; he said and added that wheat harvesting has started in some parts of the province, where wheat crop is ready. However, arrival will increase after harvesting and thrashing in the belt of Dadu and MirpurKhas, Hashim mentioned. <br /><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-rKlK4dpilks/Ux7hWlj0UbI/AAAAAAAAA3E/OdpJxPm0XGI/s1600-h/Sindh%252520has%252520adequate%252520wheat%252520stock%252520to%252520meet%252520existing%252520demand%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Sindh has adequate wheat stock to meet existing demand" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Sindh has adequate wheat stock to meet existing demand" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1pPU3eAZJkc/Ux7hXh1SMuI/AAAAAAAAA3M/TLgIb01nE1c/Sindh%252520has%252520adequate%252520wheat%252520stock%252520to%252520meet%252520existing%252520demand_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="330" align="left" height="330" /></a>He said that some trucks of new wheat crop have also arrived in the market and commodity was traded at Rs 35,000 per ton, due to some moisture. "We are expecting wheat prices will decline to Rs 35,000 in next 10 day, when proper supply of new wheat crop will begin", Hashim said. <br />Sindh government has planned to procure some 1.3 million tons this year to build its strategic reserves and Sindh food department has taken several steps to avoid any speculation in the market.Sindh government may impose an inter-district ban on wheat movement aimed to complete its procurement, he added. <br />"Presently, prices are higher than wheat support price of Rs 1200 per maund or Rs 30,000 per ton, but I m sure that wheat prices will gradually decline after arrival of new crop in the market and price is expected to be around Rs 30,000 to Rs 31,000 per ton by the end of this month", Hashim said. <br />Talking about the Thar famine, he said, this is only due to mismanagement and distribution/ transportation issues and there is no shortage of commodity in province. He said that as per food department they have distributed over thousands of wheat bags among masses of Thar in the last three days. <br />He said that during the last crop season, Sindh has failed to achieve its procurement target and some 1.05 million ton wheat was procured as against target of Rs 1.3 million tons. However this year, wheat procurement target will be achieved as Sindh will have a bumper wheat crop. <br />Akhtar Hussian, a leading flour miller, said that presently mills are getting some 300 bag per day from food department and there is no wheat crisis in the province. He said that new crop will arrive in the market from March 15 and after that stock position will further improve.</font> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank">Business Recorder</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-23442754420682057842014-03-11T02:15:00.000-07:002014-03-11T02:49:33.479-07:00Pakistan and India trade to be promoted by protecting rights of stakeholders<p align="justify"><font size="4">Trade between Pakistan and India should be promoted by protecting the rights of stakeholders particularly the growers. It was recommended by the roundtable conference titled "improving economic governance in agricultural sector through trade liberalisation between Pakistan and India" arranged at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad. <br /><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-OmlmwfeDY5k/Ux7cI3-gSVI/AAAAAAAAA2s/GIwNcbUcuOI/s1600-h/Pakistan%252520and%252520India%252520trade%252520to%252520be%252520promoted%252520by%252520protecting%252520rights%252520of%252520stakeholders%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Pakistan and India trade to be promoted by protecting rights of stakeholders" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Pakistan and India trade to be promoted by protecting rights of stakeholders" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vvuUsbjWiXg/Ux7cKHffhbI/AAAAAAAAA20/Gdow-srnwio/Pakistan%252520and%252520India%252520trade%252520to%252520be%252520promoted%252520by%252520protecting%252520rights%252520of%252520stakeholders_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="420" align="left" height="420" /></a>The recommendation was made by the UAF Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan while Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Pro Chancellor Syed Babar Ali, MNA and Parliamentary Secretary Rana Afzal, Farmers Association Pakistan President Tariq Bucha and other progressive farmers were present on the occasion. While informing the audience about recommendations, the Vice Chancellor suggested the identification of the seasonal window for the commodities. <br />He quoted the examples of potato which has peak season in August and September in India and in Pakistan it has the peak season in October and November. The conference also recommended that trust deficit between the two countries needs to be bridged through dialogue. The strengthening of the domestic production market is also essential to tap the potential of the sector. <br />The Vice Chancellor said India is the big market of around one billion of the people. He said the trade with the seasonal window would open up new chapter of progress. He also sought the policy interventions in this regard to flourish the sector in Pakistan. He said India is providing the highest subsidy on the electricity. Even in the Indian Punjab, the subsidy on tube wells is amounting to Rs 1trillion. Syed Babar Ali said we need to tap the potential in flourishing the agricultural sector by promoting the state-of-the-art technologies in the country. <br />He said China has made tremendous work in the garlic. Our country can do the same. We have to get the benefit from others experience. He said 70 percent of the population is directly or indirectly linked to the agricultural sector that must be strengthened. He also suggested setting up entrepreneurship cell at the UAF in order to equip the youth with the skill and to transform the knowledge into goods and services. <br />MNA Rana Afzal said the Government is making all-out efforts to strengthen the agricultural sector in the country. He said the recommendations to be made before the government. He said agriculture is the backbone of our economy, contributing 21 percent in the Gross Domestic Product. Tariq Bucha urged the government to take the tangible steps to address the issues of the farming community. He said at least ten percent of the budget must be allocated for the agricultural sector. He said in the process of trade policy formulation, the farmers must be taken on board. ORIC Director Professor Dr Asif Ali, Dr Abdul Ghafoor, Dr Waseem Ahmad, Dr Mubashair Mehdi, Director Ayub Agriculture Research Institute Dr Abid Mehmood, Aiwan-e-Zarat President Dr Sadique Naseem and others also attended the meeting.</font> </p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank">Business Recorder</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-72071977948274991652014-03-10T06:05:00.000-07:002014-03-10T06:20:33.895-07:00Growing Wheat of Your Own<p align="justify"><font size="4">If you’re deep into horticulture and self-direction, sooner or later you’ll need to do growing wheat. Among alternative advantages, it permits you to urge far from the business method that grows a superbly sensible grain, then scrapes off the bran, peels out the germ, bleaches the flour, and sells all those things back to you individually.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">If you try, you'll discover wheat is simple to grow nearly anyplace within the u.  s., while a wide-row crop in your garden. One gardener in VT attests to having planted thirty pounds of winter wheat on simple fraction of Associate in Nursing acre and harvest 250 pounds of grain in July. On a somewhat smaller scale, although you have got a curtilage that’s twenty feet by fifty feet, you'll plant six pounds of wheat and harvest nearly fifty pounds of grain.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Before you sky-high conceive to place in enough wheat to form all of your bread for consecutive year, begin with alittle trial space the primary year. This check run can enable you to be told however the grain behaves, what its cultivation issues area unit, however long it takes you to handle it, however it’s stricken by varied climate conditions, and more. <br />Different Types of Wheat</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ievDhrQTb4c/Ux28GpwiVBI/AAAAAAAAA2U/CSylkJthXAU/s1600-h/Growing%252520Wheat%252520of%252520Your%252520Own%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="Growing Wheat of Your Own" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Growing Wheat of Your Own" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-IwRjqbMXzeM/Ux28HlOdKcI/AAAAAAAAA2c/XTE5mSbJfnY/Growing%252520Wheat%252520of%252520Your%252520Own_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="373" align="right" height="373" /></a>After you’ve determined what proportion wheat to plant, you’ll have to be compelled to decide which kind to plant. It’s simple to urge confused concerning sorts of wheat. Winter wheat is planted within the fall and harvested from period within the South to late July within the North. Spring wheat is planted within the spring and harvested within the fall. each spring and winter wheat area unit additional divided into wheat (lacking a high protein content and used primarily for pastries and crackers), durum wheat (with a high protein content and used for breads), and corn (used for pasta). the variability you choose can rely on wherever you reside. seek advice from your native cooperative consultant to be told that varieties area unit best for your region. (To realize sources for little quantities of wheat seeds, strive our Seed and Plant Finder, or seek advice from your native farm stores.) <br />Planting Wheat</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Plant winter wheat in fall to permit for 6 to eight weeks of growth before the soil freezes. this enables time permanently root development. If the wheat is planted too early, it's going to smother itself the subsequent spring and it may well be susceptible to some late-summer insects that won’t be a problem within the cooler fall weather. If winter wheat is planted too late, it'll not overwinter well.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Spring wheat ought to be planted as early because the ground is worked in spring. Do the initial tilling within the fall, then until and sough the spring. to confirm Associate in Nursing equally distributed crop, find out the quantity of seed you’ll would like, divide it into 2 piles, and broadcast one half in one direction, like from east to west. Then broadcast the rest from north to south. A cyclone crank seeder can do a good job, however broadcasting by hand is ok for alittle plot. you furthermore mght will plant it in rows like alternative crops. <br />Cover the seed by rototilling or raking it in to a depth two|of two} to 2 one⁄2 inches for winter wheat and one to 1 1⁄2 inches for spring wheat. For best results, roll or otherwise firm the bed to confirm sensible seed-soil contact. <br />Harvesting Grain</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">As you admire your wheat stand, you’ll notice in solstice (later for spring wheat) that the colour of the stalks turns from inexperienced to yellow or brown. The heads, serious with grain, tip toward the planet. this suggests it’s time to check the grain. opt for a head, detect a number of grains, and pop them into your mouth. If they're soft and soggy, the grain isn't nevertheless prepared. Keep testing. someday the grains are firm and firm, and it'll be time to reap.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">At harvest, however {should you|do you have got to|must you} cut the wheat? If you have alittle enough plot, you’ll simply snip the heads of wheat off the stems. It goes quickly if your wheat field is not any larger than concerning six feet wide by twenty five feet long.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Using a scythe. If you prefer the stylish approach of doing things and area unit progressing to harvest a bigger quantity of grain, you would possibly use a scythe and cradle. The cradle could be a series of long wood fingers mounted on top of the scythe blade. The scythe cuts the wheat, so the cradle carries the cut wheat to the tip of every swing and deposits it during a neat pile, stacked with all the heads sorted along. you'll cut with the scythe alone, however you'd pay plenty of your time finding out the cut wheat and composition it for easier handling.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Harvesting with a edge tool. Another potential tool for cutting little amounts of grain is that the edge tool. It’s a matter of grab and cut, grab and cut. Hold a few of wheat in your hand and swing the edge tool together with your right to chop the plants at nearly ground level. It’s potential to kneel or crouch in numerous positions to avoid obtaining too tired. As you narrow handfuls, lay them in little piles with all the heads pointed within the same direction.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Binding sheaves. consecutive step is to bind the grain into sheaves, every concerning twelve to fourteen inches in circumference — a bunch you'll hold well in your hands. Bind an equivalent day you narrow the wheat. It’s nice to own 2 folks taking turns cutting and binding. you'll bind with wire or baler’s twine or maybe with a number of the wheat stems, twisting them during a approach that holds the bundle firm.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Curing the grain. Stack sheaves upright during a well-ventilated, dry location safe from grain-eating animals. Our ancestors stacked sheaves to form shocks within the field, however with little quantities, it’s simple to bring the sheaves in out of the weather. The grain has been cured once it's laborious, shatters simply, and can't be damaged together with your fingernail.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Threshing. currently it’s time to thresh the grain — to separate the straw and chaff from it. you'll set about this in any variety of the way. One technique is flailing. A flail consists of 1 piece of wood concerning three feet long — the handle — connected with a animal skin thong to a shorter piece concerning a pair of feet long. The shorter piece is flung at the heads of grain repeatedly, shattering a number of heads whenever. If you're mistreatment this technique, you'll expect to provide concerning three pounds of wheat in twenty to twenty five minutes. That’s slow work. Also, there’s a trick to learning to swing the tail while not rapping yourself on the top. <br />Another way is to beat the individual sheaves against the within of an oversized, clean dustbin. In 2 hours a thresher will turn out a will filled with wheat, however with plenty of chaff and even solid heads in it. this can be quicker than flailing, however produces additional detritus that has got to be separated from the wheat.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Winnowing. the same old technique for sifting is gushing the grain from one instrumentality to a different, property either the wind or the breeze from an electrical fan push the lighter chaff out of the grain. Repeat the method a number of times to urge the grain as chaff-free as potential. <br />The Best ways that to Store Wheat</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The approach you store grain depends on what proportion you’re managing. Storing it properly means that protective it from heat, light, and wetness, still as from rats, mice, and insects. you'll keep alittle quantity of grain in plastic luggage within the electric refrigerator much forever, however it takes additional effort to store larger amounts.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The general recommendation is to store laborious winter or spring wheat with but a ten % wetness content — a wetness level that's really tough to achieve while not further drying (see below). Five-gallon metal or plastic buckets with friction lids area unit ideal for storing all grains. 100 pounds of grain is keep in 3 of those containers. (Garbage cans don't seem to be sensible for storage as a result of creating them bug-proof is tough.)</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">These cans forestall insects from going in the grain, however you want to take another step to eliminate any eggs or larvae already within the grain. an easy technique is to heat the grain within the kitchen appliance for half-hour at one hundred forty degrees Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, that conjointly can facilitate cut back the wetness content. If you’re undecided concerning the accuracy of your oven’s thermostat, check it with Associate in Nursing kitchen appliance thermometer: temperatures beyond one hundred forty degrees could injury the grain. <br />Grinding Grain</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Some books counsel employing a liquidizer to grind the grain, however that doesn’t work well. You won’t be ready to create nice, fine flour — solely a rough meal with particles of uneven size. At first, shopping for a reasonable, hand-cranked mill sounds right and romantic — back to nature all the way! however what proportion flour area unit you progressing to be grinding? You’d need to grind all afternoon to urge enough flour for 6 loaves of bread, and that’s apt to discourage you from baking in the slightest degree when the primary few tries. mistreatment an electrical grinder could be a higher thanks to grind giant quantities. once you’re choosing a mill, raise the subsequent questions:</font></p> <ul> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="4">can it handle {the quantity|the quantity|the number} of flour you expect to grind during a affordable amount of time? <br /></font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="4">will it grind while not heating the grain? <br /></font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="4">will or not it's adjusted to grind totally different degrees of coarseness? <br /></font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="4">Is it simple to use and clean? <br /> </font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="4">can replacement components be on the market if you would like them? <br />    </font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="4">Is it factory-made by a honored company which will honor the warranty?</font></div> </li> </ul> <p align="justify"><font size="4">When grinding grain, avoid the temptation to grind giant amounts for future use. Grind what you would like for maybe every week, Associate in Nursingd refrigerate the unused portion in an airtight instrumentality. Whole grains is keep for months while not loss of style or nutrition, however this can be not true of whole grain flour.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-20653074250966372472014-03-06T01:45:00.001-08:002014-03-06T02:28:46.024-08:00Sugarcane : A Complete guide<p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>SCIENTIFIC NAME:</u></b><i> Saccharum officinarum</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>INTROUDCITON:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Sugar cane is C<sub>4</sub> plant it is a parineal crop. The plant takes 10 to 12 month under Pakistani condition. 18 month under Australian condition and 24 month in Cuba and Brazil condition to complete its life cycle. The plant grows from seed set called as plant crop. It is vegetative plant. Rising of succeeding crop after harvesting first year crop is known as ratoon crop. Sugar cane is very sensitive to cold injury. During frost conversion of sucrose to glucose takes place. The sugar mill are interested in sucrose while the farmer are interested in sugar cane weight. Therefore we need high sugar and high weight variety. It is a true seeded plant. They have five sub species</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Saccharum spontanium</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Saccharum sinensis</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Saccharum Bari beri</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Saccharum robustum</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Saccharum officinarum</i></font></p> <i> <p align="justify"> </p> <font size="4"></font></i> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>SOIL REQUIREMENT:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Sugar cane can be grown in low fertile, medium fertile and high fertile soil. It is very essential the sugar cane should be grown in high fertile soil because of parineal crop and produce high biomass.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>CLIMATE:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">The sugar cane is tropical crop it can tolerate high temperature but the optimum temperature at the time of sowing should not be less than 12 ºC to 18 ºC. The optimum temperature for growth is 30 ºC.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><b><u><font size="4">PLANTING SEASON:</font></u></b> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">There are two seasons:</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Winter season (September sowing)</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Spring season (February to March sowing)</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">In winter season intercropping takes place for example onion in Sindh and wheat, mustard in Punjab. In February to March only onion can be sown.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>LAND PREPARATION:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Sugar cane requires deep tillage. Deep tillage includes Mould board plough and those farmers who do not have tractor they use Sarkar plough made up of wood. There are two types of sowing in sugar cane. Sugar cane is sow in furrow area as it is water-loving plant. Row to row distance is 3-5 ft.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>CONTENTS:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Thin variety seed is sown for 60-70 munds per acre. It contains 13-14% fiber & 70% water, 10-11% sugar and 2-3% impurities, 1-2% glucose. We have to evaporate the water than we will get the sugar. Plant to plant distance is 9-12 inches over lapping of sets take place. Buds and leaf grown alternately. Leaf covers the bud to protect it in order to safe the bud from the outer environments. If the bud damages than the growth does not occurs/ takes place.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>SEED SELECTION:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Ratoon type crop are not selected. It is better to cut the top portion of crop as top portion contain good amount of glucose and lower portion contain sucrose. Immature seed is better than mature plant seeds. 40,000 to 60,000 sets are grown in 1 acre.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>VARIETIES:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>BL-4 Barbados + Lyallpur</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>POJ Java variety in Indonesia</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>COL In India 113-116 Comibitor + Lyallpur</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>BF Barbados + Faisalabad 129</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>BF-162 </i></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Thatta-10</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>SPSG-26</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>CP Canal point</i></font></p> <i> <p align="justify"> </p> <font size="4"></font></i> <p align="justify"><b><u><font size="4"></font></u></b></p> <p align="justify"><b><u><font size="4">GERMINATION RATE:</font></u></b> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Top portion of sugar cane give 70% germination</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Middle portion of sugar cane give 40% germination</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Basal portion contain more salts therefore its germination is 30%</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Covering of sugar cane is called “rind” which contain parenchyma cells it contain sugar content.</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Roots are known as fibrous roots.</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>When the stem bends and than the root which arises are known as butterious roots.</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Basal root contain glucose only which help in growth. </i></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Earthing up (prevents from water logging) should be done in the month of June.</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>One bud can arises 40 to 50 sugar cane.</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>SEED TREATEMENT:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Sugar cane seed in the form of sets can be treated with fungicides or in hot water.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>SOIL FERTILITY:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">Before land preparation we need good manuring crop. Before seeding or flowering we have to plough the green manuring. After this we have to irrigate the land in order to decompose the green manuring. Before sowing the crop a month ago we have to do manuring 10 to 15 tones per acre should be use a month ago before sowing the crop. Farmyard manuring should be decomposing properly. </font></i></p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>FERTILIZER REQUIREMENT:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">First we have to satisfy the phosphorous requirement.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>At sowing:</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">2 bags of DAP or 2 bags of TSP or 5 bags of SSP and 1 bag of SOP or MOP.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Seedling stage:</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">It comes after 1 month of sowing. 1 bag of urea when the temperature is high above 20 ºC than 2 bag of A.N is used.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Tillering stage:</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">This stage comes after 2 month of sowing 1 bag of urea. After 3 months of tillering 1 bag of urea is used.</font></i> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>IRRIGATION:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4">In September sowing (autumn) we need 40% to 45% time of irrigation of crops. For February to March sowing we need 30% to 34% times irrigation of crop (spring season). For September irrigation we need 4.5-acre foot water. For February to March irrigation we need 3-acre foot of water.</font></i></p> <i> <p align="justify"> </p> <font size="4"></font></i> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>DISEASES:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Red rot</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Whips smut</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Mossaic virus</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Ratoon stunting disease (RSD)</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LGtek8Iiui0/UxhNqDZS7sI/AAAAAAAAA18/VtvPHkziVgg/s1600-h/Sugarcane%252520a%252520complete%252520guide%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img title="Sugarcane a complete guide" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Sugarcane a complete guide" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Kxu3pbh5Q5s/UxhNr5ZdSBI/AAAAAAAAA2E/MPSjbmyPI8M/Sugarcane%252520a%252520complete%252520guide_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="357" height="305" /></a>CONTROL:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Healthy seed</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Resistance variety</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Crop rotation</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>INSECT PEST:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Termite</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Pyrilla</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Milli bug</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Red mites</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><i><font size="4"></font></i></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><u>BORERS OF SUGAR CANE:</u></b><i></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Stem borer</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Top borer</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Pink borer</i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <i>Gurdas pur</i></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><i></i></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-80913742169284965152014-03-06T01:45:00.000-08:002014-03-06T01:57:52.830-08:00Cotton<p align="justify"><font size="4">Cotton means, “thread”. Cotton is an in determinant plant. There are four cultivated species of cotton.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· <em>Gossipium arborium</em></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><em>· Gossipium herbacium</em></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><em>· Gossipium hirsutum</em></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><em>· Gossipium barbaden</em></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nLWu62Q0pDI/UxhGmu8DGzI/AAAAAAAAA1k/dxlGAIM-vfM/s1600-h/All%252520about%252520cotton%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="All about cotton" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="All about cotton" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_NUb5FXdeGo/UxhGnsihgNI/AAAAAAAAA1s/k_zVnzbcCAo/All%252520about%252520cotton_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="396" align="left" height="396" /></a>The first two species are called Old-world cotton. It is grown in India, Pakistan. Lint is used in textile and stuffing. The last two species Gossipium hirsutum (American Cotton) and <em>Gossipium barbaden</em> (Egyptian Cotton) are grown in Pakistan and known as “Narma”. Main stem of cotton is called Cotton stick. 40 kg of cotton gives 26-27 Kg of Banola seed and 13-14 Kg of lint. Cotton is important cash crop of Pakistan. 60% of export earning is through cotton 85% domestic oil (vegetative oil) is coming from cotton. It provides raw material to 503 mills in Pakistan and 1135 ginning factories. Yield per hectare is more in Punjab than Sindh.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4"></font></u></p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">PLANTING REQUIREMENT OF COTTON:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">It is warm season crop. The optimum temperature for germination is between 30-35 °C. At the time of flowering temperature is 34-36 °C.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">VEGETATIVE GROWTH PATTERN:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Emergence of leaves from nodes takes place. Healthy root system is present for acquiring soil nutrient. Acropetal (Roots) and Basipetal (Leaves) transport system is present. Main stem is called “monopodial” and branches are called “synpodial”. Root growth is 0.5-2.0 inches each day. Cotyledon unfolds at that time root can grow up to 10 cm. At early vegetative stage root is twice than plant height. At the time of boll setting due to demand of carbohydrate root growth become slow. Root activity become slow gradually when plant mature. </font></p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">IRRIGATION:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Cotton requires moderately to high irrigation. Cotton can not survive in stagnant water.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">SOIL REQUIREMENT AND SOIL PH:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Clay loamy soil is best for cotton. Optimum soil pH for cotton is 5.8-6.5 (slightly acidic). Cotton can also be grown in alkaline soil (pH ranges from 8 and above). The soil should be high in organic matter.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">VARIETIES:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The main varieties grown in Sindh are </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Kalandri</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· M-100</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Cris-9</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Cris-34</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Cris-38</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Sarmast</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Reshmi</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Rehmani</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Some Punjab varieties grown in Sindh are </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· NIAB-78</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· NIAB-98</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Krishma</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">SEED VARIETY AND GERMINATION RATE:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Seed variety should be 100% pure and germination rate is 75%. 1 lock of boll contains 6-8 seeds.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">DELITING:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">1 Kg of sulphuric acid = 10 Kg of cottonseeds.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">SOIL TEMPERATURE:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">At the time of germination soil temperature should be less than 30 ° C. Above 60° C temperatures destroy seedling emergence.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">SOWING DATE:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Sowing starts at 15<sup>th</sup> April. Row to row spacing 2.5-3.0 ft. Plant to plant spacing 9 inches approximately.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">SEED RATE:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">8-10 Kg seeds per Acre.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">SOWING METHOD:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Cottonseed is sown by </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Furrow method</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Ridges method</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">In flat method 25,000-30,000 plants per acre.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><u><font size="4">DISEASES:</font></u> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Boll rots.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Nematodes.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Seedling disease.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Verticillium wilt.</font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">· Ascochyta blight.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-71839584512947598432014-03-05T04:45:00.000-08:002014-03-05T05:41:45.944-08:00Kharif season: fertiliser makers not in favour of urea import<p align="justify"><font size="4">Domestic chemical makers don't seem to be in favour of giant import of carbamide for Kharif season as they believe that spare stocks are obtainable for the approaching crop season. The Ministry of Industries &amp; Production within the last meeting of the chemical Review Committee (FRC) had determined to import zero.125 million tons for Kharif season and therefore the chemical business supported the choice.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">This acquisition are created against a $50 million loan facility recently approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) specifically for the acquisition of carbamide fertilizer.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-aLO7fAFKTlU/UxcpkDcTWTI/AAAAAAAAA1M/pKJM3594awM/s1600-h/Kharif%252520season%252520fertiliser%252520makers%252520not%252520in%252520favour%252520of%252520urea%252520import%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Kharif season fertiliser makers not in favour of urea import" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Kharif season fertiliser makers not in favour of urea import" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7gDWcqCVV9A/UxcpllETI3I/AAAAAAAAA1U/arYJKLU4EHQ/Kharif%252520season%252520fertiliser%252520makers%252520not%252520in%252520favour%252520of%252520urea%252520import_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="444" align="left" height="444" /></a>As per estimates of chemical makers of West Pakistan consultive Council (FMPAC) - a representative body of native fertilizer makers - around three.01 million heaps of carbamide stocks, as well as domestic production and carryover stocks from Rabi season, are obtainable within the country for the approaching crop season against a most demand of two.8 to 2.9 million tons.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The country would have some zero.370 million heaps of carbamide stock at begin|the beginning} of Kharif season that may start from Gregorian calendar month one, 2014. calculable production from domestic fertilizer plants throughout the Kharif season can stay a pair of.64 million tons (with gas offer on SNGPL in line with the last year) which means there would be around three.01 million heaps of carbamide obtainable within the country against a requirement of two.8 to 2.9 million tons. As a result, the carryover stock at the tip of Kharif 2014 is probably going to be zero.21 to 0.110 million tons, a political candidate of FMPAC aforesaid.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">He aforesaid recent demand of two.9 million tons continues to be more than needs reported  by provinces. "Fertiliser plants will manufacture the specified and spare carbamide for domestic consumption by guaranteeing the required gas offer. The domestic production won't need precious interchange and billions of rupees grant, being spent on import on carbamide," he added.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The business sources aforesaid the govt call to import carbamide and distribute it through National chemical selling restricted (NFML) has additionally been politically motivated  within the past so this observe ought to be discourage by the PML-N government. The centralized is already considering shifting the foreign carbamide distribution from NFML to non-public sector so as to confirm clear and timely distribution of foreign carbamide, they added.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Sources aforesaid some quarters ar proposing an enormous import of zero.7 million heaps of carbamide import for Kharif season. However, they believed that the planned conceive to import zero.7 million heaps of carbamide is contrary to the fact on ground and therefore the call can drain around $266 million from the funds, that is already facing a crisis of depleting forex reserves.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">According to sources, this estimate of foreign carbamide has been calculated at a median $380 per ton price and Fright (C&amp;F). On this basis, the landed price involves Rs a pair of,900 per fifty kilo bag as well as port incidentals and native freight, etc. To sell this foreign carbamide at a fix value of Rs one,786 per bag, the govt would ought to offer a further grant of roughly Rs sixteen billion on zero.7 million tons foreign carbamide.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Domestic fertilizer makers urged the govt to require any call on carbamide import whereas keeping in sight this stock handiness position. carbamide is foreign to supply profit to farmers, however in point of fact, farmers don't get any advantage of foreign carbamide and later grant by the funds, they added. Despite the country's current carbamide production capability of six.9 million tons, that is world's seventh largest, West Pakistan spent over $1.5 billion on carbamide import in last three years and additionally paid a grant of over Rs sixty billion on foreign carbamide.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3"><sup><font size="3">Source: </font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank"><font size="3">Business Recorder</font></a></sup></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-12354062027454449942014-02-27T01:26:00.001-08:002014-02-27T02:57:42.773-08:00Wheat output likely to remain below projected target this year<p align="justify"><font size="4">Pakistan's wheat production is anticipated to stay regarding twenty four.5 to twenty five million tons this year, which is 0.25-0.75 million tons wanting the projected target of twenty five.25 million tons, Ministry of National Food Security and analysis officers aforementioned.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">A senior official of the Ministry of National Food Security and analysis told Business Recorder, here on Wed that Asian nation is in an exceedingly position to supply bumper wheat crop this year however it depends on atmospheric condition in March: if the temperature remains average the country's wheat output is anticipated to cross twenty five million tons, however if temperature is on top of the common for the year wheat output is probably going to stay twenty four.5 million tons.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_w0OuXhaaCY/Uw8aGVZX2PI/AAAAAAAAA00/K5rpdtKx51I/s1600-h/Wheat%252520output%252520likely%252520to%252520remain%252520below%252520projected%252520target%252520this%252520year%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Wheat output likely to remain below projected target this year" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Wheat output likely to remain below projected target this year" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YK1DYMEzE8g/Uw8aI33ppyI/AAAAAAAAA08/ZINIV1HVCD4/Wheat%252520output%252520likely%252520to%252520remain%252520below%252520projected%252520target%252520this%252520year_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="392" align="left" height="392" /></a>"This year wheat growers have brought nearly twenty one million acres underneath wheat cultivation, that is sort of one thousand thousand acres but the past year. In arid areas, a decline within the space underneath wheat cultivation, low tide provides and fertiliser shortages square measure probably to cut back the wheat production, however on national level we tend to predict a healthy wheat crop", the officers aforementioned.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">"In Rabi season we've got 2 major crops wheat and gram, wheat production is probably going to cross twenty five million tons if atmospheric condition stay favourable, whereas gram production is anticipated to be 550,000 tons this year against set target of 600,000 tons" he added . Gram is especially cultivated in Bhakkar, Layyah, Khushab and Mianwali districts, whereas wheat is being cultivated across the country tho' geographical region is that the major wheat manufacturing province, followed by Sind and KPK.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">"Pakistan wants around 900,000 loads of gram to feed its population on low-cost macromolecule, however the country is at the present manufacturing solely 550,000 loads of gram. within the past, Asian nation was manufacturing nearly 800,000 loads of gram pulse. Even in worst-weather years, the gram production was ne'er less than 5 maunds per acre. sadly throughout the past few years it absolutely was solely two.5 maunds per acre. however and why did the yield call in over seventy % at intervals a matter of few years nobody knows", Abraham Mughal Chairman Agri-Forum Asian nation aforementioned.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Mughal aforementioned the case could improve slightly if water and fertiliser handiness improves adding that at the present a bag of carbamide is obtainable at Rs one,900 to Rs two,000, that 3 years back was obtainable at Rs 800 per bag. the assembly value of various crops has increased  manifold throughout past few years and farmers square measure unable to buy necessary inputs to extend yield. Farmers have planted wheat over a locality of very little over eight.5 million hectares this year, down from nine.13 million hectares last year once the country created a bumper crop of regarding twenty three.8 million loads of wheat, Mughal aforementioned.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><font size="2">Source: </font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank"><font size="2">Business Recorder</font></a> </font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-20626688467740618792014-02-27T01:26:00.000-08:002014-02-27T01:58:23.094-08:00Agriculture sector opposes granting NDMA/MFN status to India<p align="justify"><font size="4">The Agriculture Task Force (ATF) of Pakistan-India Joint Business Forum (PIJBF) is vehemently opposition granting Non-Discriminatory Market Access/Most Favoured Nation (NDMA/MFN) to Asian country at this stage.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--vMem75NiEg/Uw8MNS5U7TI/AAAAAAAAA0c/fonyq-XivLU/s1600-h/Agriculture%252520sector%252520opposes%252520granting%252520NDMA%252520MFN%252520status%252520to%252520India%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="Agriculture sector opposes granting NDMA MFN status to India" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Agriculture sector opposes granting NDMA MFN status to India" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-zJ2RliqmlLY/Uw8MO6GWrsI/AAAAAAAAA0k/122rvOYuAv8/Agriculture%252520sector%252520opposes%252520granting%252520NDMA%252520MFN%252520status%252520to%252520India_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="371" align="left" height="371" /></a>President, Farmers Associates West Pakistan (FAP) and Co-Chair of Agriculture Task force, PIJBF, Tariq Bucha in an exceedingly letter sent to the federal commerce minister has highlighted that agriculture sector, that is far and away the largest leader within the country, flatly opposes granting NDMA/MFN to Asian country until correct preparations are completed on our facet to guard our sectors from huge Indian subsidies, and find important market access from Asian country for Pakistani merchandise, to make sure the amount enjoying field as per the need ordered down within the cupboard call of bissextile day, 2012.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Unnecessary haste with that the govt of West Pakistan is continuing to open Wagah border and to over 137 things before Asian country lowers its agriculture tariffs and removes every kind of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) and healthful and Phyto healthful (SPS) barriers that are undermining our negotiating leverage and position. "For Agriculture turn out and product, Wagah route can't be opened any longer, till a separate bilateral agri-trade agreement is negotiated involving stakeholders together with FAP, and is finalised and signed, supported associate impartial and freelance study for that purpose," he said.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Moreover, he said, SAFTA doesn't apply absolutely to the complexities concerned underneath the World Trade Organization regime with relevance agriculture. it's a 15-page agreement with incomplete annexes, and needs important and severe redefining, restructuring and amendments with careful neutral input and approval, just in case it contemplates agri trade between the countries owing to huge current and future subsidies given to agriculture in Asian country that ar an indicator of unfair trade.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Nowhere will the SAFTA agreement need West Pakistan to terminate its sensitive list in 5 years. "Pakistan's agriculture sector vehemently opposes any longer phasing out of agricultural things from the sensitive list. we've got scan the SAFTA Agreement rigorously, and apprehend that there's no such categorical demand. Any reductions created on the sensitive list ar discretionary, and despite the fact that a review of the list is needed each four years, a 'review' doesn't need a discount in it," he declared.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Within the ASEAN regime, that may be a way more sturdy FTA than SAFTA, as an example, there ar things that stay for good on a "highly sensitive list", he said, adding that any representatives of the govt of West Pakistan United Nations agency agrees to needless reductions of the sensitive list should apprehend that they'd be doing therefore with none legal demand, and would be violating the principle of keeping tier enjoying field that was set down within the aforesaid cupboard call, within the wake of the big subsidies given by the Indian government.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">He steered that to effectively counter the big subsidies on agriculture before gap Wagha and granting NDMA/MFN to Asian country, the govt of West Pakistan should initial place in situ tariff rate quotas per crop that equal the grant given to every crop on the Indian facet, to make sure tier enjoying field. "The on top of steps should be verified by FAP, representing the agri-sector. Once that's done, we tend to may move forward on negotiating a separate agri-trade agreement for bilateral trade with Asian country," he added.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">It has been discovered within the letter that granting NDMA means Wagah ought to still be closed to all or any Indian merchandise, as a result of no different country's merchandise comes through Wahga. "Therefore, if all merchandise are restricted from Wagah, that might accommodates Non-Discriminatory Market Access. By granting Wagah access to over 137 Asian countryn merchandise would quantity to granting India even additional favourable terms than needed by a grant of NDMA/MFN. Granting Wagah access to over the present agriculture things can considerably weaken Pakistan's economy, and already beleaguered agriculture sector," he said.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Tariq declared that Congress Party is probably going to lose within the coming elections in {india|India|Republic of Asian country|Bharat|Asian country|Asian nation} thus the agriculture sector powerfully opposes granting NDMA/MFN to India notably once the new Indian government is merely few months away and will lift any concessions that ar given to West Pakistan by the outgoing Congress government. 'At this juncture, National Tariff Commission (NTC) doesn't nevertheless have the capability or provisions to effectively counter unfair trade practices like the anticipated selling and significant subsidisation of agricultural merchandise by the Indian facet,' he said.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Before giving any longer trade concessions to the Indian facet, he same the Ministry of Commerce should demonstrate that the NTC has the power, capability and therefore the powers to effectively defend Pakistan's agriculture from the anticipated onslaught of unfair Indian trade practices of selling and significant subsidization. "Since 2011, the Ministry of Commerce has acknowledged that the NTC lacks such capability, and nevertheless the NTC has not visibly improved. The Ministry of Commerce thus cannot in sensible conscience open Wagah or to over 137 things before it may build a strong NTC'.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Concluding Tariq same, though the agriculture sector isn't loth to trade with Asian country in an exceedingly structured, phased and effectively negotiated agreement, we tend to feel that the govt of West Pakistan has so far did not improve the capability of its establishments or place in provisions to afford required protection to its domestic sectors, to assist survive the anticipated onslaught of Indian agricultural turn out and product. 'Thus, till such time that the govt of West Pakistan demonstrates that it's serious concerning safeguarding Pakistan's domestic agriculture from unfair competition, we'll oppose any move for granting NDMA/MFN and additional gap of Wagah'.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><font size="2">Source </font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank"><font size="2">Business Recorder</font></a> </font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-75816161700796661412014-02-26T01:05:00.001-08:002014-02-26T02:32:45.273-08:00Is your organic produce really pesticide-free?<p align="justify"><font size="4">The unimaginable success and sustained growth of the organic movement over the past many decades has LED to several positive changes for the overall food offer, that embrace the enhanced convenience of unpolluted food. however there's a standard misperception among several within the natural health community that every one organic food, and significantly all organic manufacture, is adult mistreatment fully no pesticides, herbicides, or different external inputs.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">In truth, some organic foods square measure, indeed, adult with chemical inputs, which can return as a surprise to some. however the great news is that these inputs aren't constant because the inputs used on standard manufacture, and don't contain any artificial ingredients. In most cases, natural and organic pesticides square measure developed fully from plant and herb parts, and truly promote the health of each plants and soil.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CCS82iAki4Y/Uw3CwhD4b5I/AAAAAAAAA0E/ousMNSUvpgQ/s1600-h/Is%252520your%252520organic%252520produce%252520really%252520pesticide-free%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Is your organic produce really pesticide-free" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Is your organic produce really pesticide-free" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fvX914EfTuo/Uw3CydqVWDI/AAAAAAAAA0M/r7RTyvGP0aM/Is%252520your%252520organic%252520produce%252520really%252520pesticide-free_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="419" align="left" height="419" /></a>Depending on the dimensions, scope, and focus of a specific organic farm, variable cultivations standards will be de jure utilized and still be thought-about organic. Small-scale, family-operated biodynamic organic farms, as an example, is also ready to with success grow all their manufacture mistreatment fully no chemical interventions any, whereas larger-scale organic farms may have to use bound chemical solutions to their crops in accordance with the official organic standards established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">"Organically created fruits and vegetables square measure adult in an setting absent of artificial chemicals, yes, however the notion that they are adult while not chemicals in the slightest degree is fake," explains Doug Smith from ElephantJournal.com regarding the difficulty. "The reality is, most state laws enable organic farmers to spray an entire gamut of chemical sprays, powders and pellets on their organic crops. That is, if they're 'organic' or natural chemical sprays, powders and pellets."</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Some organic inputs could have questionable safety records, say some <br />Are these approved-for-organic growing chemicals safe? affirmative, however presumably no, in step with some. because it seems, bound natural pesticides and pesticides like rotenone-pyrethrin, as an example, or Spinosad, is also probably harmful to humans. the previous was joined in a very 2011 study printed within the journal Environmental Health views to probably inflicting brain disease, whereas the latter is claimed to be extremely cyanogenetic to insects and fish.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Sure, not all organic crops square measure adult mistreatment these chemicals -- several organic growers, in fact, really do use solely all-natural cultivation ways that cause no risks to human health. however some organic crops, as well as some types of organic lettuce, have allegedly tested considerably higher certainly organic-approved pesticides and herbicides than their standard counterparts have for rather more harmful artificial pesticides and herbicides.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">What will this mean for you and your family? whereas the goal here isn't to tarnish the organic label in any means -- organic certification is presently the most effective and most trustworthy system we've for regulation the assembly and sale of unpolluted, chemical-free food -- it's vital that readers bear in mind of the very fact that chemicals square measure still generally used on organic foods. Natural News readers can recall that we have a tendency to self-addressed this issue recently because it pertains to organic apples, a number of that square measure de jure sprayed with antibiotics to shield against leaf blight.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">At constant time, organic growers WHO are within the business for years insist that even if bound organic growing chemicals is also used on some organic crops, the follow is safer and much superior to traditional growing ways. One organic farmer, commenting on Smith's assessment of the difficulty, states: "I've ne'er place something on my crops that i could not eat," and goes on to elucidate that his ways square measure a lot of safer for the earth and other people "than what I did before i used to be organic." and plenty of others within the field echo this sentiment.</font></p> <p><b>Sources for this article include:</b> <br /><a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/eating-organic-may-be-harmful-the-truth-behind-organic-produce-doug-smith/">http://www.elephantjournal.com</a> <br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110214115442.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110214115442.htm</a> <br /><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com">http://www.naturalnews.com</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-72393390967969943352014-02-26T01:05:00.000-08:002014-02-26T02:02:19.238-08:00Canadian government to review 23 pesticides banned in Europe<p align="justify"><font size="4">Have any plan of what percentage chemicals are introduced into our environments since WWII? A half-decade agone, the count* was over eighty,000. Some square measure used for large atomic number 47, some square measure in medicines and processed foods, toys and home items, and a few of them square measure within the air and water.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Industrial chemicals, most of that square measure barely tested by the those that build them, square measure omnipresent. Most toxicities square measure typically not complete till huge adverse health reports square measure created. we are the guinea pigs, the canaries within the mine for the chemical firms that lie all the thanks to the bank.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), what is left of it, is short-handed and engulfed by the constant barrage of freshly factory-made chemicals. they don't seem to be nonetheless held with the older chemicals that are in industrial use for many years. The higher management positions at the Food and Drug Administration, executive department and Environmental Protection Agency square measure corrupted by business lobbyists and former business insiders WHO make the most of the revolving door system that promotes favoritism at the upper levels of business and government.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yHwwaOBT--M/Uw27ohVSVNI/AAAAAAAAAzs/Fgl_aDgMe24/s1600-h/Canadian%252520government%252520to%252520review%25252023%252520pesticides%252520banned%252520in%252520Europe%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Canadian government to review 23 pesticides banned in Europe" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Canadian government to review 23 pesticides banned in Europe" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CpkQtWLGhXE/Uw27qHK05UI/AAAAAAAAAz0/l6prBpOAMtw/Canadian%252520government%252520to%252520review%25252023%252520pesticides%252520banned%252520in%252520Europe_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="318" align="left" height="318" /></a>Here's a "legal" trick that chemical firms use to cover their products' toxicity. restrictive agencies solely look into the active ingredients of pesticides and herbicides. however there square measure different chemicals in a very product that square measure meant to spice up the active ingredient. the precise formulas square measure withheld as proprietary trade secrets. The Uniform Trade Secrets Act supports this secrecy while not reference to health or ecological implications. company profits trump public welfare de jure.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">For example, Monsanto's Roundup contains glyphosate as its active ingredient, thus that is all that gets tested. Since it's in many herbicides already, Roundup gets rubber-stamp approval while not reference to the key "inert" merchandise that are literally adjuvants.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">However, there has been another polemic study by the parents that brought US those rats with gross tumors when their long-run exposure to GMO corn and Roundup.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Seralini and also the boys within the research lab analyzed all the inert ingredients of 9 major chemicals and discovered that each one however one pesticide contained inert ingredients additional harmful than their active ingredients. Roundup was the worst.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Sometimes it is the natural action of these ingredients combined, and generally it's one or 2 alone which will be worse than the active ingredients. (GM Watch, supply below)</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Canadian activists push for investigation of pesticides and herbicides employed in Canada <br />In August of 2013, Ecojustice filed four lawsuits strict that Health Canada examine twenty nine pesticides illegal in Europe. Canadian federal law mandates that any pesticides or herbicides illegal by even one nation of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development should be evaluated for safety in Canada.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">At first, the tormenter Management administrative unit (PMRA) of Canada refused. then again attorneys for Ecojustice started taking part in hardball with lawsuits strict the administrative unit to fits federal law. therefore the agency united to review twenty three of the twenty nine chemicals, one amongst that could be a common weed killer anonymous  within the supply article, in all probability Roundup.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Four of the remaining six chemicals still have restricted use in Europe, and 2 don't seem to be employed in Canada. therefore the six chosen to not be reviewed stands with each side in agreement. Consequently, the PMRA requested that Ecojustice drop its proceedings, considering it superfluous and unwarranted in light-weight of their plans to review those twenty three chemicals.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Source: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/044033_pesticides_Canadian_government_safety_testing.html" target="_blank">Natural News</a></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-70148544587807687252014-02-20T23:15:00.002-08:002014-02-21T02:52:45.464-08:00Grow your own pharmaceuticals<p align="justify"><font size="4">It's very straightforward to grow powerful medicines which will lower your sterol, shield your heart, scale back your risk of upset, enhance system perform, and shield you from polygenic disease and lots of different chronic diseases. each plant could be a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant provided naturally. It's sort of a multi-million dollar pharmaceutical laboratory that takes raw materials and converts them into healing medicines. It will this freed from charge, while not asking something back from you aside from a bit little bit of care, some water, and a few daylight. <br />If you're thinking that regarding however plants operate, they are quite exceptional producing engines. They take nutrients out of the soil, greenhouse gas out of the air, water, and photons from daylight. Then, through a fancy system of metabolism and chemical change, plants manage to convert those components into healing phytonutrients, together with vitamins, enzymes, wholesome oils, fiber, proteins, and sophisticated carbohydrates. and they turn out all of those fantastic phytochemicals that we're currently learning additional regarding in terms of preventing, and even reversing, chronic diseases like cancer.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Plants offer you an additional factor, too: the energy of life. this can be another variety of nutrition, that I decision "vibrational nutrition." It's one thing that you simply cannot get from synthesized pills or factory-made foods. you'll be able to solely dig from plants, as a result of it's to try and do with the energy of living, respiration organisms.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6ZYXt-hI1Y8/Uwcv8ztkdsI/AAAAAAAAAzU/pbfjoMXV3WY/s1600-h/grow%252520your%252520own%252520pharmaceuticals%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="grow your own pharmaceuticals" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="grow your own pharmaceuticals" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-lSnqiHvcESA/Uwcv-Df1mcI/AAAAAAAAAzc/CNgF_dysL0w/grow%252520your%252520own%252520pharmaceuticals_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="399" align="left" height="399" /></a>For nearly each chronic unwellness, there's a plant which will treat it. area unit you battling cancer? Grow yourself some garlic, onions, and broccoli. area unit you battling high cholesterol? Grow and eat some blueberries. area unit you littered with macular degeneration? you'll be able to grow a good form of berries. If you are within the right climate, you'll be able to grow nut trees that offer wholesome oils right off the tree. In fact, despite what style of climate you are in, there area unit plants as healing drugs which will be grownup in your region, whether or not you are within the nice white north, or the jungles of Central America. whether or not you are in a very dry desert climate, the plains, forest, rainforest, swampland, the icy north, the mountain range, or the Smoky Mountains, there area unit plants you'll be able to grow which will facilitate heal you.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">This is one in every of the most areas of analysis on that i am focusing without delay. i am performing on finding new ways in which for individuals to additional simply grow plants that have a healing potential. i might wish to share with you what I've learned to date, so invite you to remain up-to-date, as a result of there is a ton additional sensible info coming near this subject. One goal I actually have is to make or promote some type of device which will perform as a home pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, with which individuals will plant seeds and primarily get pleasure from a inactive operation that grows these plants while not requiring a lot of effort on their half.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">It's quite silly to pay $100 per pill to a pharma once you will grow more practical and safer prescribed drugs right in your own residence, balcony, or curtilage. In fact, the word "pharmaceutical" suggests that "plant drugs." The word "pharma" has identical root utilized in the word "farming," after all. therefore medicines extremely do have their origins in plants. It's solely through the atrocious politics of pharmaceutical corporations these days that folks have forgotten the plant origins of drugs. What i am hoping to try and do is assist you come back to to the plants, as a result of the plants have the healing characteristics that we want.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">For widespread adoption, we want one thing that works while not soil. Soil works nice for the outside, however if you actually desire a system that works for people that do not have yards, soil is clearly not the thanks to go. There area unit currently plant growing technologies accessible that grow plants much more with efficiency with much better yields than with soil. they are not essentially new, though there area unit some new technologies rising in these fields. i am talking regarding tank farming and aeroponics. tank farming has been around for quite an whereas. it's the growing of plants in nutrient solutions that haven't any soil. Basically, you are exposing the plant roots to liquids containing the nutrients required to grow. this can be achieved through Associate in Nursing ebb-and-flow agriculture system, or another agriculture configuration.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">You may be shocked to be told that you simply will grow plants while not soil. the fact is that the soil is simply a medium that holds nutrients for the plants. therefore if you get obviate the soil, however still offer the nutrients to the plant roots, they are going to be simply fine. In fact, you'll be able to increase yields through this method versus growing them in soil. I've done this myself in several experiments, within which I've planted identical plants in soil vs. a agriculture system. I actually have found a lot of quicker growth and bigger yields in a very agriculture system. agriculture systems do need electricity, and that they take some effort to be told the way to operate properly. however they will be terribly profitable. they are additionally much more moveable than growing plants in soil, as a result of it's easier to maneuver a receptacle, a timer, and a pump than it's to maneuver four hundred lbs of soil.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">If you would like to spice up yields on the far side those achieved by agriculture systems, a stronger system to use is Associate in Nursing aeroponic system. this can be what you see at the Epcot Center in American state, wherever agriculture scientists area unit victimisation this technology to grow vertical stands of plants. They basically spray the roots with a nutrient resolution on regular intervals.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Spraying the roots of a plant each quarter-hour with this nutrient resolution has benefits over the agriculture approach, as a result of you are able to make even additional expanse between the nutrients in your liquids and also the roots of the plant. In my expertise, Associate in Nursing aeroponic system produces considerably bigger yields than the agriculture system. If you're thinking that regarding what is chargeable for that increase, you understand that it is the bigger expanse of the smaller droplets of water being sprayed on the roots.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">You can purchase home-built aeroponic systems on the web. None of them area unit extremely elegant, however they work, and that they do turn out outstanding plant yields. Right now, i am growing tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, herbs, strawberries and even watermelons on aeroponic systems. Plant growth is extremely aggressive, though i'm having some challenges obtaining the tomato plants to fruit (it's in all probability simply a nutrient oversight on my half, thanks to my relative ignorance in plant chemistry).</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">When i am able to retire these plants for the season, i am going to snap some photos of the foundation mass to indicate you simply however effectively aeroponic growth systems are often. you will be completely astonied at however quickly and sharply these plant root networks will grow.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">The bottom line here is that i feel home-grown plants area unit aiming to create an enormous comeback within the years ahead, and we're aiming to see nutrient-rich styles of plants (like red carrots with lycopene) that treat and forestall chronic unwellness, in addition to new technologies that permit hands-free cultivation of healing plants. After all, World Health Organization has to build a $100 million drug manufacturing plant once nature will manufacture all the medication you wish for the value of one or two of seeds? I say, let nature build the medicines.</font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-38551976874408790372014-02-20T23:15:00.001-08:002014-02-21T02:13:19.343-08:00IDA may give $160 million for rehabilitation of barrages in Sindh<p align="justify"><font size="4">International Development Association (IDA) can possible provide to produce $160 million for Sindh Barrages Improvement Phase-I Project to safeguard the reliable supply of water to regarding a million hectares through the rehabilitation of the Guddu barrage and therefore the improvement of O&amp;M capability of the Irrigation and Power Department. <br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-j-IVLXRlqus/UwcmuI7QX5I/AAAAAAAAAy8/PUoXbMhk7W4/s1600-h/%252524160%252520million%252520for%252520rehabilitation%252520of%252520barrages%252520in%252520Sindh%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img title="$160 million for rehabilitation of barrages in Sindh" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="$160 million for rehabilitation of barrages in Sindh" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Bc94jYJLr-E/UwcmvMMqSRI/AAAAAAAAAzE/hEP2kfM7B2w/%252524160%252520million%252520for%252520rehabilitation%252520of%252520barrages%252520in%252520Sindh_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="244" /></a>According to IBRD report, Pakistan's agricultural sector is sort of altogether enthusiastic about irrigation. Irrigated land provides over ninety p.c of agricultural production. Agriculture in most areas isn't doable while not irrigation as a result of the climate of Asian country. <br />Annual rain over abundant of the realm isn't over 150mm each year with high evaporation rate, starting from one,250mm to 2,800mm each year. Given temperature change and high increase rates, current varieties of water resources management square measure wide recognised as being unsustainable and inadequate to confirm future water convenience for food security, economic process, and therefore the wants of the setting, report mentioned. IBRD report mentioned that the barrages square measure strategic hydraulic assets. <br />Barrages square measure wont to raise the water level within the watercourse in order that irrigation water is amused to the most and link canals by gravity for varied uses. Barrages also are used for watercourse management and flood management, act as a supply of water system for all sectors of the economy, perform as bridges over rivers, and square measure usually used for utility crossings like gas pipelines. Therefore, the condition and therefore the safe and reliable operation of a barrage have extensive implications for the resource and economic process of all sectors of society. Guddu barrage has major issues of safety. The other, Sukkur barrage, is one in every of the oldest and serves regarding 3 million area unit of agricultural land. It conjointly has many issues of safety. The Kotri barrage was restored in 2000.</font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-7232308935565249562014-02-20T23:15:00.000-08:002014-02-21T01:19:07.457-08:00Olive Cultivation-Bringing Peace to FATA<p><b>Olive Plantation Initiatives</b> </p> <p>45% land of FATA is suitable for olive cultivation </p> <p>(GIS study conducted by IOA and PODB) </p> <p><b>Most suitable areas includes</b> </p> <p>–Bajaur 79,899 ha (53.4 %) </p> <p>–Mohmand 75,167 ha (34.2 %) </p> <p>–Kurram 93,676 ha (19.1 %) </p> <p>–SWA 37,134 ha (6.4 %) </p> <p>–NWA 51,319 ha (15.3 %) </p> <p><b><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-3r_CtASnalY/UwcZ_4DkTyI/AAAAAAAAAyk/Yf88zL9Us6I/s1600-h/Olive%252520Cultivation-Bringing%252520Peace%252520to%252520FATA%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Olive Cultivation-Bringing Peace to FATA" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Olive Cultivation-Bringing Peace to FATA" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MgJqT7noXRw/UwcaBQhqQsI/AAAAAAAAAys/n3P9zz2V5TM/Olive%252520Cultivation-Bringing%252520Peace%252520to%252520FATA_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" height="350" /></a>Why Olive Plantation</b> </p> <p>• Plant of Marginal land </p> <p>• Minimum land preparation cost </p> <p>• Minimum inputs cost </p> <p>• High rate of return </p> <p>• Simple value addition </p> <p>• Wide range of products </p> <p>• Fruit bearing life >900 years </p> <p>• Suitable for many areas </p> <p>• Can reduce import bill </p> <p>• Great export potential </p> <p><b>Issues/challenges</b> </p> <p>• Sustenance of farmers </p> <p>• Security concerns in FATA </p> <p>• Farmers education & training </p> <p>• Limited saplings available </p> <p>• Infrastructure (road, market) </p> <p>• Water scarcity </p> <p><b>Implementation Strategy</b> </p> <p>• Implementation to start from FR/closer to settled areas </p> <p>• Ownership of Politicians, PAs, Maliks and Notables </p> <p>• Selection of areas with irrigation resources </p> <p>• Sustenance of poor growers </p> <p>• Free distribution of saplings </p> <p>• Monitoring through satellite imagery/third party audit </p> <p>• Training of farmers </p> <p>• Small oil extraction units to be developed by ABEI, PARC </p> <p><b>Benefits</b> </p> <p>• Environmental improvement </p> <p>• Marginal land utilization </p> <p>• Development of village entrepreneurship </p> <p>• Employment generation </p> <p>• Livelihood improvement </p> <p>• Export potential </p> <p>Source: Presentation highlight taken from Pakistan Agriculture Research Council Website for original Presentation <b><a href="http://www.parc.gov.pk/files/New%20Initiave/article1.pdf">Click Here</a></b></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-85525617174445028672014-02-18T03:09:00.001-08:002014-02-18T04:39:56.157-08:00Wheat Yield Competition<p align="justify"><font size="4">Under the directives of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, provincial Agriculture department has finalised necessary arrangements for holding "Wheat Yield Competition" across the Punjab. Official sources told <i>Business Recorder </i>on Monday that prizes worth to Rs 125.775 million would be given to the winners of the competition of provincial, divisional and tehsils levels in the Punjab. <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3t9m9_iAqFA/UwNUi9GBaQI/AAAAAAAAAyM/U0In1y5XKr4/s1600-h/Wheat%252520Yield%252520Competition%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="Wheat Yield Competition" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Wheat Yield Competition" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-iqYNbpgo1QI/UwNUlcYB1OI/AAAAAAAAAyU/cyndJdvu4Zo/Wheat%252520Yield%252520Competition_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="352" height="352" /></a>Wheat Yield Competition would be held among the wheat growers across the Punjab and Agriculture department has already finalise the criteria, procedure, constitutions of Markaz, tehsil, district, divisional and provincial levels committees for the competition. At provincial level, first prize 85 HP tractor, second and third prizes 75 Hp tractors, at divisional level, first prize 75 HP tractor, second prize 65 HP and third prize 55 HP tractors will be given to the winners of the competition. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2"><sup><font size="2">Source: </font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank"><font size="2">Business Recorder</font></a></sup></font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com" target="_blank"><font size="2"></font></a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-10223643934175526052014-02-18T03:09:00.000-08:002014-02-18T03:20:47.917-08:00Growers urged to complete sunflower sowing<p align="justify"><font size="4">Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) has warned the growers to immediately complete sunflower sowing as further delay will result in lower per acre yield. A spokesman of the Department said here on Monday that best time for spring plantation of sunflower in Southern Punjab including Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan Division is till February 10. <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-F4pPeNj5uEY/UwNCBEoWtrI/AAAAAAAAAx0/qnclFFbHGU8/s1600-h/Growers%252520urged%252520to%252520complete%252520sunflower%252520sowing%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Growers urged to complete sunflower sowing" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Growers urged to complete sunflower sowing" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-U4aKqa3n1cI/UwNCDQgVEqI/AAAAAAAAAx8/XKk8bauQa1w/Growers%252520urged%252520to%252520complete%252520sunflower%252520sowing_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="338" height="338" /></a>While in Sahiwal, Faisalabad and Sargodha Division best time for sowing is till February 15 and for Lahore, Gujranwala and Rawalpindi Division the suitable time is till end of February. He further stated that the growers should adopt latest technology to get maximum per acre production. </font></p> <p align="justify"><sup><font size="3">Source: </font><a href="http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183:pakistan/1154567:growers-urged-to-complete-sunflower-sowing/?date=2014-02-18" target="_blank"><font size="3">Business Recorder</font></a></sup></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-42455112561388305702014-02-18T01:10:00.001-08:002014-02-18T01:24:50.799-08:00What is Ebb and Flow Hydroponics and How Does it Work?<p align="justify"><font size="4"><b><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-x6NTqTsQu5g/UwMm26n4iyI/AAAAAAAAAxc/5i4l6AdJXJ8/s1600-h/What%252520is%252520Ebb%252520and%252520Flow%252520Hydroponics%252520and%252520How%252520Does%252520it%252520Work%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="What is Ebb and Flow Hydroponics and How Does it Work" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="What is Ebb and Flow Hydroponics and How Does it Work" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-tTyHHaNDdeI/UwMm4MBzneI/AAAAAAAAAxk/-M-gXF14t5U/What%252520is%252520Ebb%252520and%252520Flow%252520Hydroponics%252520and%252520How%252520Does%252520it%252520Work_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="407" align="left" height="407" /></a>Ebb and flow</b> hydroponics is a method of growing plants hydroponically that is known for its reliability, simplicity of operation and low cost of investment. Pots or a flood tray are filled with a grow media such as gravel, clay pellets, lava rock etc. These do not function like soil or add nutrition to the plants but will anchor the roots and will function as a temporary reserve of water and nutrients. The hydroponic solution floods the system four to six times a day and is allowed to drain away in between flood cycles. <br />With this system a water tight flood tray or pot, containing either clean gravel, clay pellets or lava rock is used as the rooting medium. The system is then periodically flooded for short periods of time (5 to 15 minutes) with a nutrient solution pumped from a reservoir. By placing the reservoir below the flood tray, with a over flow drain, the nutrient solution can drain back by gravity through the pump with the same line that supplied the water and nutrients during the flood cycle. Our favorite media is lava rock with this type of system. Lava rock drains quickly and traps air and will not leave a clay residue if using clay pellets, which can clog the water pump after time.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><strong>Aeration of an ebb and flood system</strong> is one of the most important things of the system. Let me explain, when the system floods it is in a deep water culture mode. Your reservoir may contain an air delivery system such as a air stone to keep the water saturated with oxygen and eliminate a pathogen problem. During the flood cycle the oxygenated air is pumped into the tray or bucket for 5 to 15 minutes. During this 5 to 15 minute period there is no additional air and oxygen being supplied to the tray or bucket. So even though you are now in deep water culture mode your plants are not receiving the amount of air and oxygen as if they were in a deep water culture system. The reason why is a deep water culture system has air constantly pumped into the reservoir 24 hours a day in which the roots are submerged. During the ebb cycle, or draining of the tray or bucket, air is now pulled down into the grow media supplying oxygen to the plants. At this point until the next flood cycle the roots again are being deprived of fresh air and oxygen. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><strong>Drawbacks to Ebb and flood hydroponic systems:</strong> <br />1. Pathogens in reservoir, flood tray or pot due to stagnated water during drain time which can contaminate the entire system due to the shared water source. <br />2. Limited amount of oxygen available during flooding of tray or pot. <br />3. Limited amount of oxygen available while in the ebb or drain stage. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><strong>Is there a solution to the problem above?</strong>  <b>Ebb and flow</b> hydroponic system to help eliminate the problems above. By adding Air Injection Technology at the very bottom of the media in your current flood tray or pot you will eliminate the drawbacks to a ebb and flood hydroponic system. You will also increase the plants growth rate and have healthier plants. 1. Pathogens in the flood tray or pot are eliminated because there is a constant supply of oxygen 24 hours a day weather in the flood stage or drain stage. 2. Constant supply of oxygen during the flood stage just like true deep water culture. 3. During the ebb or drain stage there is constant air being delivered to the plants roots 24 hours a day weather in the flood or drain stage. This will bring your current <b>Ebb and flow</b> hydroponics system up to date and will allow you to take full advantage of your ebb and flood hydroponics system at minimal cost. </font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-4005669538311991762014-02-18T01:10:00.000-08:002014-02-18T01:12:23.197-08:00DAAM win 3rd Position in Pakistan Nature Carnival at PAF museum<p align="justify"><strong><font size="4">Overview:</font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">WWF-Pakistan in collaboration with Horlicks Pakistan organised a fun-filled Nature Carnival at PAF Museum. The Nature Carnival attracted up to 30,000 individuals from various walks of life. <br />There were over 150 stalls set-up by schools, colleges and universities. The main competition revolved around 3D models set up by students of schools and universities. Expert judges including foresters, conservationists, and environmental historians amongst others graded the models. <br />Families, corporate and academia representatives including principals attended the carnival. Participants were engaged in eco-friendly games, puppet shows, lucky draw and other activities set up by WWF-Pakistan including pin the tail on the snow leopard and thematic art competitions. <br />Chief Guest at the event was famous Pakistani drama and film actress Atiqa Odho. She said that each and every one of us should start taking care of the things we need for our survival including forests, water and all our natural resources so that we can give a thriving planet to our children and their children.</font></p> <p align="justify"><strong><font size="4">DAAM win 3rd Position in Pakistan Nature Carnival at PAF museum:</font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Department of Agriculture and Agribusiness Management (DAAM) win third position under university category, DAAM represent Hydroponics model system for vegetable and fruit cultivation, hydroponics or soil-less farming system is one of the most discuss technology around the globe, hydroponics is the only solution to fulfill the requirement of world vegetable requirements.</font></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://agrinfobank.com/daam-win-3rd-position-pakistan-nature-carnival-paf-museum/attachment/1/"><font size="4"><img title="Hydroponics: agrinfobank.com" alt=" DAAM win 3rd Position in Pakistan Nature Carnival at PAF museum " src="http://i1.wp.com/agrinfobank.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1.jpg?resize=494%2C494" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://agrinfobank.com/daam-win-3rd-position-pakistan-nature-carnival-paf-museum/attachment/2/"><font size="4"><img title="Hydroponics: agrinfobank.com" alt=" DAAM win 3rd Position in Pakistan Nature Carnival at PAF museum " src="http://i2.wp.com/agrinfobank.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2.jpg?resize=162%2C162" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://agrinfobank.com/daam-win-3rd-position-pakistan-nature-carnival-paf-museum/attachment/3/"><font size="4"><img title="Hydroponics: agrinfobank.com" alt=" DAAM win 3rd Position in Pakistan Nature Carnival at PAF museum " src="http://i2.wp.com/agrinfobank.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/3.jpg?resize=162%2C162" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://agrinfobank.com/daam-win-3rd-position-pakistan-nature-carnival-paf-museum/attachment/4/"><font size="4"><img title="Hydroponics: agrinfobank.com" alt=" DAAM win 3rd Position in Pakistan Nature Carnival at PAF museum " src="http://i1.wp.com/agrinfobank.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/4.jpg?resize=162%2C162" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><font size="4"></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434660308586835661.post-28429227278948290482014-02-17T12:15:00.000-08:002014-02-17T12:23:31.077-08:00Hydroponic growing leads to tastier vegetables<blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="4">Growing vegetables hydroponically leads to a more expensive, but tastier veggie, cumberlink.com reports. </font></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="4"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-F9gYVX4M_no/UwJvs1s6SPI/AAAAAAAAAxE/HEn4LYCi3SA/s1600-h/Hydroponic%252520growing%252520leads%252520to%252520tastier%252520vegetables%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Hydroponic growing leads to tastier vegetables" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Hydroponic growing leads to tastier vegetables" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hnbsZFa4FWs/UwJvujX-piI/AAAAAAAAAxM/SHnHOhYiA7M/Hydroponic%252520growing%252520leads%252520to%252520tastier%252520vegetables_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="325" align="left" height="325" /></a>Tomatoes are the king crop in hydroponics because of the demand for them in early spring and late fall when field tomatoes aren't available. The challenge is to sell them at $2.99 per pound when field tomatoes are going for 99 cents, says Mark Toigo, 42, who has run hydroponic greenhouses for the last 15 years, among other duties, at the family-owned Toigo Orchards in Southampton Township, Cumberland County. Hydroponic grower Barb Rose, 52, co-owner of Beck-n-Rose of North Middleton Township, agrees with Toigo. She also developed a niche market in the last three years --- a few chefs at "better restaurants who care what tomatoes look and taste like," Rose says. She counts among her customers Fetter Brookside Market south of Carlisle, Mountain Lakes west of Carlisle, Oak Grove Farms of Mechanicsburg and the Butcher Shop in Chambersburg. For next season, all Beck-n-Rose produce is committed to current customers, says Rose, a former marketing manager for a start-up software company that sold last year for $40 million. "You do need to be a manager and a marketer" to be profitable, Toigo says, raising his voice above the half-dozen four-foot-wide fans that ventilate his 90- by 130-foot greenhouse off South Mountain Estates Road. He steps over piles of vines on the concrete greenhouse floor, the result of cropping the tops off tomato plants that have the last of the crop ripening on the vines. He will plant new tomato vines again in January for harvest beginning in April. Although growers would like to produce </font><font size="4">tomatoes</font><font size="4"> through the winter, year-round tomato production isn't feasible this far north. They say it doesn't have the flavor of food grown in soil," says Brubeck, who sells mostly to restaurants and to some grocery stores in Cumberland, Dauphin and Lebanon counties.</font> </p> <p><b>Original source:</b> <br /><a href="http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2005/08/07/business/busi01.txt">http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2005/08/07/business/busi01.txt</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893365249811344478noreply@blogger.com0