Month: March 2021

Decellularized Spinach Serves as an Edible Platform for Laboratory-Grown Meat

  • March 31, 2021
Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance that may accelerate the development of cultured meat, according to a new report in the advance online edition of the journal Food BioScience. Stripped of all […]
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Food Shortage: A Biggest Future Challenge

  • March 29, 2021
Food scarcity is one of the biggest challenges of the future and Global food insecurity is the leading threat in the developing world, stated by Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Director of the PABIC and International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, and COMSTECH Coordinator-General, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at […]
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Punjab Issue Schedule for Sowing of Registered BT Cotton Varieties

  • March 29, 2021
Agriculture Department Punjab has issued a schedule for sowing of registered cotton varieties and advised farmers to complete sowing of registered Bt cotton varieties from April 1 to May 31. Agriculture spokesman said in a statement here Friday that IUB-13, MNH-886, BS-15, Niab-878, and FH-142 were the registered BT cotton varieties and advised farmers that […]
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Food Shortage: A Biggest Future Challenge

  • March 26, 2021
Food scarcity is one of the biggest challenges of the future and Global food insecurity is the leading threat in the developing world, stated by Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Director of the PABIC and International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, and COMSTECH Coordinator-General, on Tuesday, at the seminar on […]
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Agricultural Industry Reform May Help Reduce Pak-China Trade Deficit

  • March 26, 2021
Agriculture is the main driving force of Pakistan’s economic growth, and the export of agricultural products is the largest source of Pakistan foreign exchange income. The Chinese government has always encouraged the expansion of trade with Pakistan, hoping to import more goods from Pakistan, especially agricultural products. As a typical agricultural country, Pakistan has a […]
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Chinese Agrichemical Giant to Establish Plant in Faisalabad’s Special Economic Zone

  • March 26, 2021
BEIJING – General Manager of Zhengbang Agriculture Pakistan Private Limited, Zhang Shilu has planned to invest Rs700 million to establish an agrichemical plant at Allama Iqbal Special Economic Zone, Faisalabad. Under the second phase of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, the friendly business environment, and huge market potential in Pakistan, Zhangbang began to prepare for the agrichemical […]
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Chinese Seed technologies to Authorize Pakistani Seed Industry

  • March 26, 2021
BEIJING, Mar 23: China-Pakistan cooperation in seed, the “core” of agriculture, is high on the agenda as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor enters the second phase to focus on agriculture cooperation and other sectors of social welfare. Thanks to the promulgation of Seed Law in 1999 and its revised version in 2016, which led to […]
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Agricultural Biotechnology: PABIC, FCCU Inaugurate Booklet

  • March 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Biotechnology Information Center (PABIC) Friday launched a booklet on the ‘Current Status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Pakistan’ by Dr. Kauser Abdullah Malik and in collaboration with Forman Christian College University (FCCU), seeking an enabling environment for introducing innovative technologies in the agriculture sector. This booklet provides an overview of the development of biotechnology […]
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Biotechnology to Help Address Food Security Opposition

  • March 24, 2021
The use of biotechnology by Pakistani farmers would not only result in enhanced productivity but would also help address food security challenges being faced by the country, said Punjab Agriculture Minister Hussain Jahania Gardezi. Speaking to members of the Pakistan Biotechnology Information Centre on Friday, he was of the view that biotechnology would resolve food […]
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Government Attempt to Uplift Agriculture Sector, says Fakhar Imam

  • March 24, 2021
MULTAN – Federal Minister for National Food, Security and Research, Syed Fakhar Imam, said that country’s Agri production could be enhanced by paying special focus on agriculture. He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has a special interest in the uplift of Agriculture and he is well aware of the issues, faced by the growers. […]
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