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Climate Change Impacts on Crop Productivity and Endangering Pakistan Future
Climate study is very important as all life forms survive in this world due to favorable climatic conditions and any change in climate will affect all biological lives around the…
Problems of Crop Production in Water Logged Soils
Water logging occurs in soils when soil profile is completely splashed with water, and there is insufficient oxygen in the pore spaces for plant roots to be sufficient relax. So…
Bring Crop Insurance on!
Climate change has become scariest truth to pose multiple threats to crops. Erratic rainfall, persisting droughts, continuous floods and heat waves are some highly debatable aspects affecting food security…
Hope for small landholders: Crop insurance
Very 61% of individuals in Pakistan live in provincial zones even without having satisfactory landholdings and adequate money related assets for horticulture to obtain their job. With low level of…
Quinoa- An innovative crop in Pakistan
Quinoa is an innovative crop and an emerging crop of Pakistan. Its scientific name is Chenopodium quinoa. It belongs to family amaranthaceae sub family chenopodiaceae. Its crop height is about…
Innovative approaches to support Crop Productivity
Innovative approaches are those approaches which renovate the agriculture and aid farming community to increase crop production in sustainable agriculture. These approaches include Biotechnology, Precision Agriculture, bio-production / Biological fortification,…
Safflower – a potential industrial crop in Pakistan
Safflower, botanically Carthamus tinctorius L., and locally known as Kasumba is a crop that has great potential to be sown in Pakistan. The crop can be successfully raised in the…
Exogenous application of silicon enhances crop yields in salt-affected soils
Soil salinity poses a serious threat for agriculture industry steeply decreasing cultivated area every year all over the world. Pakistan is situated in arid to semi-arid climate having high temperature…
IRSA warned low levels of water in Mangla dam during crop season
Low levels of water in Mangla dam because of inexpert water management warned Indus Rivers System Authority (Irsa). This may be expected to result in problems in irrigation in coming…
Kallar Grass “The Salt Grass” an Important Fodder Crop to Ameliorate Salt-Effected Soils
Pakistan is an agricultural country; major part of its population depends on agriculture. Pakistan is located between longitude 61° and 76° E and latitude 24° and 37°N. Major part of…
Silicon can increase the crop yield by bounding the cadmium
THE BACK bone of the most developing countries is considered as Agriculture. It contributes about 60-80 percent of GDP of a country. It is the basic source of foreign…
Perspective of Camelina sativaas-an oil seed crop
Pakistan is a developing country. With the increasing population, the demand for edible oil increases day by day. In Pakistan cotton sunflower, rapeseed-mustard and canola are considered…
Prospective of nanotechnology in crop fertilization
NANOTECHNOLOGY is the utilization of materials having the size in nano (1-100 nm in dimension) at scale. The high reactivity of nano-materials (nanoparticles) is related to their…
Perspective of nanotechnology in crop fertilization
NANOTECHNOLOGY IS the utilization of materials having the size in nano (1-100 nm in dimension) at scale. The high reactivity of nanomaterials (nanoparticles) is related to…
Precision Agriculture – a new approach to crop management
BY 2050, it is expected that the worlds population will reach billion people, 34 percent higher than today. Much of this growth will happen in developing countries.…
Pakistan to have bumper wheat crop this year
STAFF REPORT ISB: Pakistan will reap a bumper wheat crop this year and surplus the target, as harvesting is continuing in Sindh, where production is expected to exceed four…
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Impacts of climate change on crop production in Pakistan, future challenges and mitigation strategies
CLIMATE change is a rising issue of agriculture that has a direct impact on crops productivity. Since billion years of earths formation, its climate has been constantly…