Sheep Farmers Increase Incomes By 80% After USAID’s “Best Practice” Business Training For Ghulam Shahwani Farooq, a small-scale livestock farmer from Mastung in Balochistan, his work is more than a livelihood, it is a legacy. “This herd has been with our family for generations,” said Farooq, speaking about the 300 head of Baloch-breed sheep in […]
Pre-Feasibilities Studies Fisheries Fiber Glass Boat [Jun-2010] Category: Fisheries Sector: Fisheries Region: Balochistan Investment Size: PKR Between 1-2 Million Boat building has been one of the ancient arts practiced by civilizations as old as Egyptians and Mesopotamian in 3000 BC. Different materials including logs, bundles of reeds, animal hides and wooden planks have been used in the construction of […]
How to Start a Fish Farming Business How to Start a Fish Farming Business Starting Own Fish Farming Business Have you always dreamed of owning your very own fish farming business? Do you feel that the place that you have would be a great fish farm? If you want to start your own fish farming […]
What are Agricultural Extension Services? Agricultural extension services are public and private sector activities relating to technology transfer, education, attitude change, human resource development, and dissemination and collection of information. Agricultural extension services bring to the farming community information and new technologies, that can be adopted to improve production, incomes and standards of living.
Matching Grant Support to Enterprises On-Farm Production Grants i. Farmer Enterprise Groups (FEGs) In order to overcome economies of size disadvantages it is vital to organize smallholder farmers into groups to engage in collaborative activity including production, post-harvest processing, value addition and marketing. Under this sub-component, funding will be provided to NGOs and RSPs to […]
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A Role Model of Sustainable Agribusiness Finding the necessary balance between agricultural productivity and resource efficiency is challenging, but it can be achieved by incorporating climate-friendly cleaner production techniques. Ukraine may have a comparative advantage for primary agricultural production, thanks to its vast arable land and fertile black-earth soils. But its agricultural production and related […]
Agribusiness in Africa Agribusiness plays a vital role in economic development, contributing a major portion of GDP, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in many developing countries. This is particularly true in Africa, where agriculture accounts for 25 percent of the continent’s GDP, and 70 percent of employment. Despite its importance, Sub-Saharan Africa’s agribusiness sector faces […]
Adopting latest rice planting systems RICE an important food crop and one of the main export items accounts for 6.1 per cent of the value-added in agriculture and 1.3 per cent to the GDP. The country in respect to area under rice (paddy) ranks 10th in the world and 14th for yield per ha. The […]
Snags in Sugarcane Production in Pakistan Sugarcane is an important cash crop of Pakistan. It ranks at the 5th position in its acreage and production and almost 15th position in sugar production in the world. Sugarcane is mainly grown for manufacturing sugar and other sweeteners (Shakar and Gur) and its by-products are used in chipboard and paper industries. It is an […]
Sugarcane Varities Situation in Pakistan Pakistan occupies an important position in sugar world, as it ranks on 6th position in cane acreage and production and has 14th position in sugar production. However cane yield of the country is very low, that with 48 tha-1 yield it stands on 47th position amongst 105 cane growing countries. […]
Developing new cane varieties CULTIVATION of early maturing varieties of sugarcane with better per acre yield is needed because of growing water shortage. Sindh, being at the tail end of Indus River system, is quite often hit by water shortages. This necessitates developing suitable cane varieties through intensive research. Cane needs 67 inches of irrigation […]
SUGAR CROPS RESEARCH PROGRAM NARC, Islamabad INTRODUCTION The Coordinated Research Program on Sugar Crops was initiated in 1982 at National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) initially with 3 Provincial Units: i) Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI) Faisalabad (Punjab), ii) Sugar Crops Research Institute, Mardan, (NWFP) and Agricultural Research Institute, Tandojam (Sindh). Later on, […]
Sugar industry in pakistan What IS SUGAR? • Sugar is a vital ingredient in most of out daily consumption articles. For example: Soft drinks juices, tea, biscuits, sweetmeats, bakery items deserts, pharmaceutical industry, etc. Introduction The Sugar industry in Pakistan is the Second largest agro based industry after Textiles Pakistan is an important cane producing […]
All About /Crop/Sugarcane Overview Sugarcane is an important cash crop of Pakistan. It is mainly grown for sugar and sugary production. It is an important source of income and employment for the farming community of the country. It also forms essential item for industries like sugar, chip board, paper, barrages, confectionery, uses in chemicals, plastics, […]
Technical support be provided for mushroom cultivation KARACHI (September 09 2006): The government should provide facilities and technical support to farmers for cultivating mushrooms as the increased production would attract buyers from international market where demand for mushrooms is growing rapidly. Dr Muhammad Asif Ali, Incharge of Mushroom Laboratory, Agriculture University, Faisalabad, told Business Recorder […]
Mushrooming into summer options Traditionally, mushroom cultivation in Punjab has ended along with the winter. Two new varieties will now seek to break the myth that it is only a winter crop. These summer varieties, developed by Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) in Ludhiana, are said to be of quality richer than the winter ones. The […]
Mushrooms An edible mushroom is a delicacy relished as popular but costly food. In the developed countries, mushrooms have become one of the most important of all the horticultural crops. The production of mushrooms is increasing rapidly throughout the world, which is available all the year round and is used in many kinds of table […]
Mushroom: a nutritious edible fungus AN edible mushroom is a delicacy, which is relished as a popular and costly food. In the developed countries, mushrooms have become an important horticultural crop. Production of mushroom is rapidly increasing throughout the world. It is available all the year round and is served as a delicacy with other […]
Punjab farmers reaping rich dividends with Mushroom cultivation DEHRIWAL (PUNJAB): Overcoming problems like shortage of land or rising costs related to traditional crops, many farmers in Punjab’s Dehriwal Village, 35 kilometers of Amritsar, have taken to mushroom cultivation. Mushroom cultivation is known to be a commercially valuable spore-bearing fruiting body of fungus. Sewa Singh, a […]