Agriculture
- Wheat Sowing Over 85 Percent Area Completed In Punjab
Wheat sowing over 14 million acres has been completed in Punjab which is 85 percent of the targeted 16 million acres to produce 19 million tons of wheat during 2013-14 Rabi season, Director General Agriculture Extension Services Dr Anjum Ali told Business...
- 100,000 Wheat Seed Bags For Small Farmers
Irrigation Department is distributing seeds to the eligible small farmers, having land up to five acres, in Thal Canal command area of Layyah and Muzaffargarh districts free of cost. According to the plan, 37,740 small farmers of 703 villages in these...
- Wheat Flour Price Soars By Rs Two Per Kg
July 18, 2013 The price of wheat flour soared by Rs 2 per kg on the local market after wheat grain became costlier by Rs 200 per 100-kg sack during the last week, traders said on Wednesday. The country missed wheat crop target by three percent this year...
- Us Wheat Futures Fall
US wheat futures fell on Friday on continued pressure from storms in the US Plains that provided relief to the drought-stricken hard red winter wheat crop, traders said. Wheat prices closed at their session lows on a round of late selling as investors...
- India To Produce Over 82 Mln Tn Of Wheat This Year: Iari
820 thousand tons of wheat in the country produce more of this year, in late September will exceed last year's record rainfall, crops, and research institutes from the soil, a senior official said today is consistent with the IARI. "We certainly wheat,...
Agriculture
USDA to continue support to improve wheat productivity
Clay Hamilton, Agriculture Counsellor (USDA) said that USA and Pakistan has long history of collaboration in agriculture and it will continue to provide support for improvement of wheat productivity in Pakistan. This he sated at inaugural session of two-day Annual Wheat Planning/ Wheat Productivity Enhancement Programme (W-PEP) meeting at NARC which was jointly organised by PARC- USDA - CIMMYT and ICARDA with the objective to review the progress make in wheat research and develop work plan for 2013-2014 here on Tuesday.
Clay showed his satisfaction over the work done in W-PEP Project aimed at developing UG-99 resistant wheat varieties, seed and better production technologies to improve wheat productivity in Pakistan. Dr Shahid Masood, Member (PSD) PARC said their co-ordinated wheat programme is one of the more successful co-ordinated programmes. Dr Imtiaz Muhammed from CIMMYT briefed the participants about W-PEP achievement during last three years in Pakistan. Under this programme, research equipments, machinery and training has been provided to Wheat Research Institutes in Pakistan. Its success included release of UG-99 wheat varieties such as NARC-2011.
Dr Abdul Majeed from ICARDA briefed about the achievements in seed and agriculture demonstrations and seed production of UG-99 resistant wheat varieties that has been done on large scale. The trials have showed that new technologies like relay cropping of wheat in cotton, ridge planting in irrigated wheat and introduction of legume in different cropping system like rice-wheat and rained cropping system can improve the wheat productivity.
Dr Muhammad Azeem Khan, DG NARC highlighted the role of seed in wheat productivity. He shared the information on different wheat seed system of Pakistan. Dr Imtiaz Hussain, Co-ordinator (Wheat) briefed about co-ordinated wheat activities in Pakistan. PARC is collaborating with 25 different wheat research institutes/ universities, in germplasm distribution, national trials for variety release, building linkages with planning meetings and seminars, and capacity buildings of scientists.
With the help of National trials, five new wheat varieties have released in 2013, this included 3 in KP and 2 in Sindh. Director General, FSC&RD also briefed the participants regarding the role of this organisation in seed provision and certification. He stressed the need for enhanced collaboration among researchers, seed sector and FSC&RD.-PR
Clay showed his satisfaction over the work done in W-PEP Project aimed at developing UG-99 resistant wheat varieties, seed and better production technologies to improve wheat productivity in Pakistan. Dr Shahid Masood, Member (PSD) PARC said their co-ordinated wheat programme is one of the more successful co-ordinated programmes. Dr Imtiaz Muhammed from CIMMYT briefed the participants about W-PEP achievement during last three years in Pakistan. Under this programme, research equipments, machinery and training has been provided to Wheat Research Institutes in Pakistan. Its success included release of UG-99 wheat varieties such as NARC-2011.
Dr Abdul Majeed from ICARDA briefed about the achievements in seed and agriculture demonstrations and seed production of UG-99 resistant wheat varieties that has been done on large scale. The trials have showed that new technologies like relay cropping of wheat in cotton, ridge planting in irrigated wheat and introduction of legume in different cropping system like rice-wheat and rained cropping system can improve the wheat productivity.
Dr Muhammad Azeem Khan, DG NARC highlighted the role of seed in wheat productivity. He shared the information on different wheat seed system of Pakistan. Dr Imtiaz Hussain, Co-ordinator (Wheat) briefed about co-ordinated wheat activities in Pakistan. PARC is collaborating with 25 different wheat research institutes/ universities, in germplasm distribution, national trials for variety release, building linkages with planning meetings and seminars, and capacity buildings of scientists.
With the help of National trials, five new wheat varieties have released in 2013, this included 3 in KP and 2 in Sindh. Director General, FSC&RD also briefed the participants regarding the role of this organisation in seed provision and certification. He stressed the need for enhanced collaboration among researchers, seed sector and FSC&RD.-PR
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- Wheat Sowing Over 85 Percent Area Completed In Punjab
Wheat sowing over 14 million acres has been completed in Punjab which is 85 percent of the targeted 16 million acres to produce 19 million tons of wheat during 2013-14 Rabi season, Director General Agriculture Extension Services Dr Anjum Ali told Business...
- 100,000 Wheat Seed Bags For Small Farmers
Irrigation Department is distributing seeds to the eligible small farmers, having land up to five acres, in Thal Canal command area of Layyah and Muzaffargarh districts free of cost. According to the plan, 37,740 small farmers of 703 villages in these...
- Wheat Flour Price Soars By Rs Two Per Kg
July 18, 2013 The price of wheat flour soared by Rs 2 per kg on the local market after wheat grain became costlier by Rs 200 per 100-kg sack during the last week, traders said on Wednesday. The country missed wheat crop target by three percent this year...
- Us Wheat Futures Fall
US wheat futures fell on Friday on continued pressure from storms in the US Plains that provided relief to the drought-stricken hard red winter wheat crop, traders said. Wheat prices closed at their session lows on a round of late selling as investors...
- India To Produce Over 82 Mln Tn Of Wheat This Year: Iari
820 thousand tons of wheat in the country produce more of this year, in late September will exceed last year's record rainfall, crops, and research institutes from the soil, a senior official said today is consistent with the IARI. "We certainly wheat,...