Food and Agriculture

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The Australian government has helped launched an AUD$15 million Water Programme to help the Pakistan Government’s efforts in developing a National Water Commission and National Water Policy. Australian High Commissioner Margaret Adamson said that “Australia has more than one thousand companies which can provide advice and technologies in this critical sector.” Three projects to improve

Chicken prices have risen to Rs350 a kilogram and that of boneless meat to Rs600 per kg. Retailers used to maintain a difference of at least Rs100 per kg in prices of live bird and its meat prices, but now they have stopped following the practice due to surging demand. Two kinds of retail rates

Pakistan has struck an unprecedented deal with Philippines for the export of hybrid rice seed to the Southeast Asian nation, an industry official said on Thursday.   “Philippines has decided to import hybrid rice seed from Pakistan because the crop raised form this variety is less labor intensive compared to Irri,  which is currently being

Punjab Agriculture Department has signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Nestle Pakistan for agricultural sustainability including Chaunsa Mango sector and Water Resource Management. For the Chaunsa project Nestle Pakistan shall take on board Mango Research Institute Multan as a research partner, said a spokesman of the provincial agriculture department here on Tuesday. By virtue

Pakistan exported around 201,000 kilograms (kg) of mushroom with a total export price of $12.930 million in 2016. Not only was the increase in the value of mushroom exports phenomenal but mushroom exports also contributed over 25 percent to the overall vegetables exports of over $101 million the same year. In Pakistan, mushrooms are grown

A severe infestation of the papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus) nearly wiped out papaya orchards in Pakistan before this largely farming South Asian country decided to replace conventional chemical pesticides that were ineffective, with natural predators that proved to be successful. Developed by agro-biotechnologists and entomologists at the Pakistani chapter of the UK-based Centre for Agriculture

The Chinese model of nutrient management system can enable Pakistan to get optimal yields out of the lesser agriculture land. It was stated by Qingdao Agricultural University Vice President Dr Yuan Yongbing in a meeting with Pak-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) President Wang Zihai and Vice President Moazzam Ghurki at Chamber premises.

Health authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou have confirmed a new human case of H7N9 avian influenza, state radio said, bringing the total number of human infections of the highly pathogenic strain to 19 this winter. The 49-year old man, who is a chicken trader, was being treated in hospital in Qiannan prefecture,