Tag: Crop
Climate Change Impacts on Crop Productivity and Endangering Pakistan Future
March 14th, 2018 | Muhammad Nazim | No Comments
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 world by altering forests, crop yields and water supplies. Climate is the average measure of variation in meteorological variables in a particular region over long […]…Read More
| change | Climate | Crop | endangering | future | impacts | Pakistan | productivity
Problems of Crop Production in Water Logged Soils
January 25th, 2018 | Umer Ijaz | No Comments
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 thusly finally, the level of carbon dioxide in soil is extended and impacts on plants improvement. There is no broad level of water marking in […]…Read More
Bring Crop Insurance on!
November 28th, 2017 | Gulfam Hassan | No Comments
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 around the corner of world. In this context, Pakistan is of no exception being prone to climate change consequences. Likewise, droughts are putting pressure on water […]…Read More
Hope for small landholders: Crop insurance
October 17th, 2017 | No Comments
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 salary, they are diving into degraded destitution. Difficulties, for example, dubious climate conditions (surges and dry spells), prompting crop disappointment or misfortune, uncertain land possession […]…Read More
| Crop | hope | insurance | landholders | small
Quinoa- An innovative crop in Pakistan
October 16th, 2017 | Raza Hussain | 4 Comments
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 1-2 meter. It has been introduced in Pakistan in 2008 with the help of USDA. It is originated in the Andean region of Peru, Bolivia, […]…Read More
| Crop | innovative | Pakistan | Quinoa
Innovative approaches to support Crop Productivity
October 13th, 2017 | Muhammad Ahmad Arain | No Comments
Innovative approaches are those approaches which renovate the agriculture and aid farming community to increase crop production in sustainable agriculture. These approaches include i.e. Biotechnology, Precision Agriculture, bio-production / Biological fortification, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), rice intensification systems (SRIs), organic farming, conservation agriculture, water Management Systems, natural resource management, urban and peri-urban agriculture, biofuels and […]…Read More
| approaches | Crop | innovative | productivity | support
Safflower – a potential industrial crop in Pakistan
September 19th, 2017 | Shakeel Ahmad | No Comments
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 present climatic conditions. Its strong stem enables it to withstand drastic climatic variations. Flowers are produced at later stage of growth which produces seeds rich […]…Read More
| Crop | industrial | Pakistan | potential | Safflower
Exogenous application of silicon enhances crop yields in salt-affected soils
August 24th, 2017 | Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman1 | No Comments
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 and a low rainfall accumulating salts at the surface and sub-surface soils causing salinization. Salt affected area in Pakistan is more than7 mha and about […]…Read More
| application | Crop | enhance | exogenous | saltaffected | Silicon | soils | yields
IRSA warned low levels of water in Mangla dam during crop season
July 28th, 2017 | No Comments
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 sowing seasons for winter crops. Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has been made aware by Irsa in a letter written on 24 July that […]…Read More
Kallar Grass “The Salt Grass” an Important Fodder Crop to Ameliorate Salt-Effected Soils
July 6th, 2017 | M. Yousaf Nadeem | No Comments
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 the country lies in semi-arid to arid region receiving annual rain fall 250 mm and ranges from 100 – 760 mm. Most of the area […]…Read More
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