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Speakers say food study to help end malnutrition
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:06 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Speaker at a seminar have said that the Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Study 2012 would provide vital evidences for better policy decision to address hunger and malnutrition in Pakistan. The speakers said this at an inception meeting on “Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Study 2012” and was organized by SDPI and WFP. The more...
Preventive step can end mango disease
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 1:17 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: An endophyte is an endosymbiont, often a bacterium or fungus, that lives within a plant for at least part of its life without causing apparent disease. Endophytes are ubiquitous and have been found in all the species of plants studied to date. The endophytic fungus causing this serious mango post-harvest disease "Stem End Rot" (SER) that has become very more...
No homework done to end gas shortage
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:41 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Despite massive shortage of gas, the two state-owned gas companies have continued to build new pipelines, spending Rs 123 billion over the last six years to add approximately 2 million more consumers to the gas grid. The government had a gas allocation plan as early as 2005 but did not bother to implement it that led to the present gas crisis in the more...
Samar unveils plan to end gas crisis
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:55 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Member of the Science and Technology Planning Commission, Dr Samar Mubarakmand has said that the gas shortage would be end within a year through coal reserves. “Pakistanhas enough coal reserves through which we could daily produce 50-60 million cubic feet gasifier, which will end the gas shortage from the country,” Dr Samar told the media. To a more...
