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...
- Climate Change Setting New Farming Patterns
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- Increasing Rice Output, Exports
Friday, 26 July 2013 ZAHID BAIG The Punjab government has decided to constitute a 'working group' comprising stakeholders to make efforts for increase in production and exports of rice. It is also decided that presence of all the stakeholders...
- Manila Restricts Rice Imports From Pakistan To Five Years
February 15, 2013 GHULAM ABBASWhile taking a waiver from the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Philippine has fixed quota of rice imports from Pakistan to 25,000 tons for two years, restricting the imports to five years. The quota of imports from Pakistan...
- 19 Rice Varieties Introduced
January 23, 2013 RECORDER REPORT Rice Research Institute (RRI) Kalashah Kaku has introduced 19 different rice varieties out of which nine varieties are being sown in the province on a large scale. This was claimed in a briefing given to the Punjab Secretary...
Agriculture
Paddy plantation in full swing in Punjab
Friday, July-12-2013
Sialkot, Narowal, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, and Hafizabad districts produce best varieties of rice including Basmati 370, Super Basmati, Super Kernal, Basmati 386, Basmati 385 and Basmati 198. Pakistan earns around two billion dollars in foreign exchange by export of rice every year.
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The paddy plantation is in full swing in the rice growing districts of the province after recent rains in the central Punjab, Director General Punjab Agriculture Extension Services Dr Anjum Ali told Business Recorder.
He said climate was conducive, water supplies were adequate and there were positive indications that rice crop would be sown over the target area of 4.2 million acres well in time and Punjab would achieve production target of 4.3 million tons of various varieties of rice this season.
Sialkot, Narowal, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, and Hafizabad districts produce best varieties of rice including Basmati 370, Super Basmati, Super Kernal, Basmati 386, Basmati 385 and Basmati 198. Pakistan earns around two billion dollars in foreign exchange by export of rice every year. About the impact of recent rains on other crops, Dr Ali said the timely rains had been very beneficial to the sugarcane, vegetables and fodder crops in the rain-fed Barani areas and canal irrigated Central Punjab. He further said since there had been no rains in the cotton growing belt of South Punjab, therefore cotton crop was safe from the rain-related pest / virus attacks.
News Source: Business Recorder News Collected by agrinfobank.com Team
- 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...
- Climate Change Setting New Farming Patterns
Ashfak Bokhari As evident from longer spells of heavy rains and devastating floods for the fourth consecutive year, Pakistan is experiencing the worst effects of climate change. These include serious threats to agriculture and water resources and, in...
- Increasing Rice Output, Exports
Friday, 26 July 2013 ZAHID BAIG The Punjab government has decided to constitute a 'working group' comprising stakeholders to make efforts for increase in production and exports of rice. It is also decided that presence of all the stakeholders...
- Manila Restricts Rice Imports From Pakistan To Five Years
February 15, 2013 GHULAM ABBASWhile taking a waiver from the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Philippine has fixed quota of rice imports from Pakistan to 25,000 tons for two years, restricting the imports to five years. The quota of imports from Pakistan...
- 19 Rice Varieties Introduced
January 23, 2013 RECORDER REPORT Rice Research Institute (RRI) Kalashah Kaku has introduced 19 different rice varieties out of which nine varieties are being sown in the province on a large scale. This was claimed in a briefing given to the Punjab Secretary...