Capital Growth food growing training July 31-2013 The training programme provides a range of short and full day courses covering everything you need to know to set up and maintain your food growing space in an urban setting. Read on for upcoming sessions or find out more about specific areas of training from the list below. […]
July 30, 2013 FAISALABAD: Experts at an international seminar on Tuesday called for promotion of environment-friendly agricultural practices like precision cultivation to increase productivity and to reduce the input cost. The seminar titled Technology, Energy and Natural Resources was arranged by the Department of Environmental Sciences of GC University, Faisalabad (GCUF) and was presided over […]
A Platform for Change: Using Technology to Support Women Entrepreneurs July 30,2013. Before I started working for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s Mentoring Programme, I mostly associated the term “platform” with politics, public speaking or train travel. I’d never heard of the technical version – the foundation on which computer programs run – but […]
How To Grow And Care For A Peach Tree Peach trees will reward a faithful gardener with abundant fruit if they are given the right growing conditions, fertilizer, and maintenance pruning. (Essortment.com) Peach trees are prized for their juicy summer fruit that make into wonderful pies. The height and texture that these trees add to […]
Master Gardener: What to look for when buying spring plants It will soon be planting time in the garden and that means buying plants! Part of the fun of gardening is adding new plants to the garden or trying new varieties of annuals and vegetables. It is always tempting to rush out and buy plants […]
How to Get Rid of Botfly Eggs (DIY) The botfly lays its eggs on the inside of a horse’s front legs, below the knee and above the hoof. If not removed, the eggs are eventually ingested as the horse nuzzles its legs and can cause problems, even death, if the horse isn’t given a wormer […]
What the Chinese experience of bird flu can teach us My wife Carmen returned last Monday from a fortnight of touring China with two friends. She brought back several interesting cuttings from Chinese newspapers printed in English for tourists such as herself. They mostly concerned the outbreak of bird flu, caused by the new H7N9 virus […]
Why Emu farming in Bihar is a very good idea! Ranchi-based veterinarian Neeraj Kumar Verma is currently writing a book to guide farmers interested in raising Emus on their farms. Emu, a flightless bird of Australian origin has found home at many sites in the country, including Karnataka and Maharshtra. Verma is in the process […]
Goat Breeding Tips for Livestock Farmers (Urdu) In order to get maximum meat and milk Beetal, Daira Deen Panah, Nachi, and Teddy Breeds. For comfortable housing sheds for goats should be on elevated grounds, south-north directions. The ceiling of shed should be 8-10 foot. Teddy goats need 10 square feet of shaded place, While bigger breeds need 12 square feet. Goats […]
Agricultural Productivity Will Rise to the Challenge We can feed a growing world for decades to come provided that we invest in research not only in the advanced countries, but everywhere “Despite the global food crisis of2007–8, the coming famine hasn’t happened yet. It is a looming planetary emergency…it is arriving even faster than climate […]
Industrial Energy Efficiency Tools in China Many institutions in China have developed and promoted a range of tools to help industry improve energy efficiency – but which have been the most successful and what needs to happen next?
Honeybees and Agriculture – how to ensure a fruitful collaboration The unexplained rise in honeybee deaths – mainly due to high winter losses in honeybee colonies in the EU, and ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ (CCD) in the USA – has become an issue of great concern. As honeybees are one of the most important pollinators for […]
Natural Wasp Spray: We Got Rid of our Wasps, No Raid Required! Long pants and a hoodie on a 95-degree day? You bet, if you’re trying to get rid of bees. At least, we thought we were trying to get rid of bees, which is what we call everything that buzzes and threatens to sting, but […]
13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil While coconut oil has dragged itself out of the muck of vast misrepresentation over the past few years, it still rarely gets the appreciation it truly deserves. Not just a “good” saturated fat, coconut oil is an exceptional healing agent as well, with loads of useful health applications.(https://www.agribusiness.com.pk/).
How to Make Herbal Popsicles ~ A Recipe Looking for a fun and effective way to incorporate more herbs into you child’s diet? Make herbal popsicles! These little homemade treats are super refreshing during the heat of summer and they provide a nourishing and immune system building snack the whole family is sure to enjoy.(https://www.agribusiness.com.pk/).
15 Reasons To Build An Herb Spiral For Your Permaculture Garden https://www.agribusiness.com.pk/ Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at […]
Total Disinformation Awareness: Monsanto Suppresses Research On GMO Crops https://www.agribusiness.com.pk/ How do you come to dominate the majority of commodity crops in the U.S.? How do you convince government that your products are the savior of agriculture? How do you convince a populace that your products pose no danger to the environment or public […]
Extortion in wholesale markets: no relief in sight for tea consumers There is no relief for consumers despite a substantial decline in tax rate on tea import because of a high incidence of extortion, market sources said here on Friday. According to major tea traders, the prevailing law and order situation is not only making […]
Microevolution By; Shehzad Ahmad Kang, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics,University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan- 38040 Corresponding author’s email; https://www.agribusiness.com.pk/ Microevolution is the changes in allele frequencies that occur over time within a population. This change is due to four different processes: mutation, selection (natural and artificial), gene flow, and genetic drift. Population genetics is the branch of biology that provides the […]
Estimation of Combining Ability for the Development of Hybrid Genotypes in Helianthus annuus L. *Corresponding author’s email: https://www.agribusiness.com.pk/ ABSTRACT Plant materials were developed by L×T crossing fashion of nine lines and four testers and their thirty six hybrids were sown in field during 2011 in RCBD design with three replications. Genetic variability, general and specific combining […]