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TAFF REPORT IBD: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) will jointly implement a five-year USAID’s agribusiness project to increase competitiveness and productivity of horticulture and livestock sectors."This project is part of the broaderUSgovernment commitment to help strengthenPakistan’s economy," said Dr Andrew Sisson, Director of USAID, in a statement.He said that the project will have a positive transformative effect

STAFF REPORT IBD: Chinese hydel power giant, China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTG), has shown its interest in investing over $15 billion for generating 10,000 MW powerPakistan.This was stated by the Chief Executive Officer of China Three Gorges First Wind FarmPakistan, Wang Shenliang, at the ground breaking ceremony of $130 million 50MW wind power plant in Jhimpir Thatta, Sindh. The Chinese company is self financing the wind power project and 1100 MW Kohala hydro power project in the

IT IS worth thinking about the origin of humans specially and all life generally. We are bound to a system having more than 100 elements, from Hydrogen which is lightest to Ununoctinum  which is heaviest, and our bodies are made up of many of these. Life starts from complex molecules which are actually complex arrangement of atoms. For instance our DNA molecule which contains all the information about the body is made up of more than 200 billion atoms! That’s only an estimate. Each atom is

BIOTECHNOLOGY IS defined as the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to produce goods and services. The completion of human genome and Arabidopsis genome projects in the year 2000 were great breakthroughs in the field of biotechnology. In the past twenty years, unprecedented progress in biotechnology has been observed, which has made revolutionary impacts on every aspect of human activity such as agriculture, forestry,