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“Trans-boundary actions are needed to protect biodiversity”: Dr. Hasan
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 9:14 pm | 0 Comment
By Paras Ali ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH), a subsidiary of Pakistan Science Foundation, Ministry of Science & Technology and Beijing Museum of Natural History (BMNH) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the areas of natural history. PMNH Director General Dr. Syed Azhar Hasan and BMNH Director Prof. Meng Qinjin more...
More innovative national agriculture policy needed
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 6:22 pm | 0 Comment
PAKISTAN IS a country where about 37 per cent population lives in rural areas and their income source is directly or indirectly related to agriculture. Agriculture contributes about 22 per cent to country’s GDP and about 25 per cent of the country's total land area is under cultivation. About 41 percent of the labour forces are employed in agriculture, but on the more...
Corrective approach needed on mango export
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
Pakistani mangoes are treated as the best fruit in most of the states in terms of taste and variety. In principle, the export of this fruit to the world should have been on the constant rise, but the situation is entirely different as export of this fruit is not portraying a progressive picture. The reduced production of mango due to the multiple factors like climatic more...
Serious efforts desperately needed to save earth
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 2:12 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan is fast becoming vulnerable to the negative impacts of environment change triggered by global warming, and subsequent massive floods and droughts, unabated deforestation and increasing wetlands. This critical situation demands of all of us to pool our resources and join hands to save the earth from degradation as it would secure life on this more...
Green benches needed in Sindh
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 11:52 am | 0 Comment
The news ‘Hazardous discharges in Ravi: Green Bench summons Wasa, EPA officials’ (April 13), wherein the green bench in Lahore High Court had taken up its first case involving an environmental issue, filled me with joy that the environment has assumed judicial importance in Pakistan. This also led me to wonder why Sindh High Court, despite the orders by the Supreme more...
Land reforms needed to boost agriculture
By Technology Times at April 23, 2012 | 12:46 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The land holding pattern in Pakistan is of highly skewed nature as 58 per cent of the country’s 6.6 million rural landowners have less than five acres of agricultural land, and only three per cent women have their own agricultural land, while, 6 per cent possess 80 per cent of agricultural land. It is evident from this fact that a majority of rural more...
Effective law needed to save dolphins
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:56 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: The liberalised fisheries law of the Sindh province has put into jeopardy the existence of the rare sweet water mammal, Indus River Dolphin, as it encourages more people to get fishing licence than before, which resulted in that as many as 40 dolphins were reportedly found dead in the River Indus last year. “There is a dire need for better control and more...
Govt’s clear policy on cassava plants needed
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 5:29 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The government would need a clear policy about promotion of cassava plantation otherwise, cassava planters will be vulnerable to the changing official policies. Local planters have been directly affected by the reduction in diesel prices because cassava produce is used in ethanol production. Over the past four months, local planters have suffered more...
Steps needed to overcome energy crisis
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
IT SEEMS that the government has no short-and long-term solution to the shortage of natural gas. The shortage has paralysed life of the people. The delay in implementing the Pakistan Iran gas pipeline project, which was initiated 10 years ago, will take another four or five years to complete. Owing to the wrong policy of the ministry of petroleum and natural resources, more...
