Agriculture sector growth slows down
STAFF REPORT IBD -The agriculture sector is widely considered the backbone of the countrys economy. But official data show the…
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Pak water resources drying up
STAFF REPORT IBD: China, India and Pakistan are three of the four top irrigators in the world, suffering from serious…
Milib and to support agri development in Pakistan
STAFF REPORT IBD: Indus Basin Holding (IBH), a leading agricultural development company in Pakistan, has announced that Britain’s former Foreign…
Increased farm inputs prices dent wheat sowing
STAFF REPORT LHR: Pakistan is surely having less wheat production than in the last year, as the government has missed…
Beware of E-waste
By Tariq Farid via Daily TimesHAZARDOUS E-WASTE has become one of the biggest health risks of this century in Pakistan,…
Connecting rural-urban divide thru ICT for better life
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union has declared the 17th May, the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), as a day…
Halal products board to be set up soon
STAFF REPORT LHR: The government has reiterated his commitment to expediting work on the Pakistan Halal Product Development Board in…
GM seed can solve world hunger problems or not?
THIS REFERS to the story published in Technology Times, titled "Genetically modified corn, maize damage Pak farming".This is a good…
Dismal performance in farming sector
The year 2011 has been marked as black year’ for agriculture sector as imposition of General Sales Tax on agriculture…
Policy risks to agriculture
By Ahmad Fraz Khan via DawnIF FARMERS’ fears are to go by, the new year might not be any different…
Life is only the consequence of complexity of particles
IT IS worth thinking about the origin of humans specially and all life generally. We are bound to a system…
Farmers advised to irrigate wheat crop sown early
STAFF REPORT IBD: The farmers should irrigate the early sown wheat crops as per need keeping in view the dry…