Month: August 2019

The Variety Evaluation Committee of Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has recommends 11 new potato varieties for commercial cultivation in Pakistan.The committee met at Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) with Chairman PARC Muhammad Ayub Chaudhry in the chair and accorded the approval of the verities for commercial cultivation.Twenty four potato varieties were presented before the committee for approval, out of which 11 […]

Pakistani and Chinese researchers are close to developing a hybrid variety of ‘Basmati’ rice with an average per acre yield of 80 maunds (40 kilogrammes) and average grain length of 8mm and above, an industry official said. China’s Longping High-Tech Industries and Guard Agriculture Research and Services Private Ltd (Guard Agri) have been jointly working […]

Pakistani agriculture experts have advised cotton growers to conduct pest scouting twice a week to save the crop from the attack of whitefly and other pests. A spokesman of the agriculture department said that the chances of pest attack increase during rainy season and its severity decreases after October. He also advised the farmers to […]

The government has approved 33 maize hybrids, two pearl millets (fodder), two sorghum sudan grass and one sorghum hybrid for commercial cultivation, The Variety Evaluation Committee (VEC) of the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) accorded approval to commercial cultivation of the crops. Chairman PARC Umer Farooq, addressing the meeting, highlighted the role of PARC and […]

Cotton research laboratory would be begin in Pakistan by the joint venture of Pak- China.Under the framework (CPEC) a joint cotton research laboratory would be established in Multan at a cost of Rs 186 million to help ameliorate the productivity of the agriculture sector by increasing cotton cultivation area and production.It will also help in […]