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FAP developing call centre for farmers
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 5:16 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: While taking a major initiative in right direction, the Farmers Associates of Pakistan (FAP) is in the process of developing the country’s first-ever farmers’ call centre, enabling the farming community to get access to latest agriculture and trade information. “The farmers will be provided latest information through text messages, emails, FM more...
Sugar mills exploiting farmers
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 1:37 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The country’s farming community is being exploited by the sugar mills through irregular practices like low and fixed rates of the crop, illegal deductions, restriction to the market and unjust buying terms and conditions, says a fresh report released by Sustainable Development Policy Institute. “Very few farmers are loyal to the specific mills, more...
Climate change: Farmers need to boost knowhow
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 1:13 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The climate change is badly impacting the agriculture in terms of reduction in per acre yield that needs to corrective measures for its revival as well as boost knowledge to ensure food security in the country. These remarks were expressed speakers at a recently held seminar by Damaan, an NGO, in collaboration with the Sustainable Agriculture Action more...
Telenor info service starts for farmers
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 5:47 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Telenor Pakistan has recently signed an MoU with the Livestock and Dairy Development Department Punjab to provide livestock information to farmers in the province. The farmers will be able to receive regular information about livestock best practices through mobile phones via SMS, training videos and other IVR services. In his remarks, Telenor more...
Farmers advised to protect wheat
By Technology Times at June 9, 2012 | 4:01 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Met Office has advised the farmers to take precautionary measures for protecting the newly harvested wheat grain from insects' onslaught, besides pests and seasonal moistures saying insects and fungi attacks can damage the newly threshed wheat grain in the post harvesting period, advising them of taking pre-emptive measures. According to them, wheat more...
Sustainable approach suits small farmers in Pakistan
By Technology Times at May 9, 2012 | 10:52 am | 0 Comment
By Muhammad Ali AGRICULTURE IS the bread and butter for small landholders. They face numerous problems which have not been resolved by approaches pursued so far. It is a dire need to shift to sustainable agriculture approach, changing the priority from farms to farmers development. The suggested approach relies on three fundamental components of extension activities more...
Telenor rises to support KPK farmers
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 1:56 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Roar Bjaerum, Vice President Financial Services Telenor Pakistan, and Arbab Muhammad Ayub Jan, Minister for Agriculture Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, have recently signed a memorandum of understanding whereby the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will provide agriculture and livestock information on mobile phones to farmers in the province. According to an official more...
Telenor starts mobile services for farmers
By Technology Times at April 23, 2012 | 1:12 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Telenor Pakistan has partnered with the Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa to provide agriculture and livestock information on mobile to farmers in the province. In addition, farmers are also open to use the Easypaisa platform to trade in agricultural commodities. Information will be provided via push SMS, voice recordings and small community more...
Ravi river farmers prefer cultivating strawberry
By Technology Times at March 13, 2012 | 12:44 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The trend of cultivating strawberry is surging among farmers living in the riverine belt of the River Chenab as cultivators are much content with its profit ratio as compared to traditional crops. The traditional crops of the single-cropping belt located on both banks of the river are wheat and vegetables. Local farmers have been cultivating the two more...
Farmers suffer as gur prices come down
By Technology Times at February 14, 2012 | 3:44 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The ban on supply of gur to Afghanistan despite bumper sugarcane crop and the prolonged cold & dry weather have improved the cane supply situation for sugar mills. However, farmers in Khyber PakhtunKhwa remain adversely affected mainly on the price front. Along with fall in price of sugar, the price of gur has also come down to about Rs 8,000-9,000 more...
Scientists, farmers share ideas to stem food crisis
By Technology Times at February 14, 2012 | 2:47 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Scientists and progressive farmers of Pakistan shared their experiences and researches at a recently held seminar in order to develop strategies in combating the emerging food crisis in the country. The seminar was organised by Dr Viqar Sultana, Professor, Department of Biochemistry; Dr Syed Ehteshamul-Haque, Professor Department of Botany; and Dr Jehan more...
Hazara farmers to get Rs 1.6b SBP credit
By Technology Times at February 6, 2012 | 12:54 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will disburse agricultural loans to the tune of Rs 1.60 billion amongst 12,000 growers and land owners of Hazara Division through commercial banks and other financial institutions. Deputy Chief Manager, SBP, Rawalpindi, said this at a recently held meeting with Commissioner, Hazara, Khalid Khan Umerzai. He said that an more...
Farmers target govt for wrong policy on urea import
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 2:39 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Farmers fromPunjab have strongly criticised the government’s lopsided policy about importing urea and claimed that the subsidy being given on it from the national exchequer is not going to the farmers but to the black marketers. “The government is selling imported urea at the rate of Rs 1300 per bag, while the farmers are getting it at Rs 1750 per more...
Experts fear MFN to India to trouble Pak farmers
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 2:30 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: AsPakistan plans to liberalise its trade withIndia, there is a strong possibility that the inefficiencies in the agriculture sector will expose this sector to international competition causing financial strains for many farmers, agriculture experts say. “In my opinion, agriculture will remain under stress during 2012,” said Iqrar Ahmed Khan, Vice more...
Farmers advised to irrigate wheat crop sown early
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 2:19 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The farmers should irrigate the early sown wheat crops as per need keeping in view the dry spell in the country's most agricultural plains, the Met office advised. It says in its ten-day farmer advisory that the wheat crop is developing in the country and urged the growers to remove weeds from the standing crops to scale down losses in the more...
Delayed cane crushing hitting farmers hard
By Technology Times at January 2, 2012 | 10:19 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The inordinate delay in cane crushing has left the growers in a quandary. Long queues of tractor trolleys and trucks can be seen outside sugar mills in various districts of Sindh which have started crushing and this process would take too many days to offload the cane at these mills. Growers were expecting that timely cane crushing would relieve them more...
