Media’s COVID Hypocrisy; Mandatory Vaccines; Biodegradable Plastic from GM Plants
How The Media’s Hypocrisy Undermines Critical Thinking In The Age Of COVID: The same media outlets that tell you to get a COVID vaccine and reject coronavirus conspiracies will also promote organic food as a safer choice, though there is no evidence behind such a recommendation, and spread myths about the dangers of so-called “industrial […]
Pakistan’s First-Ever Research Center of Intercropping Officially Approved
ISLAMABAD: The establishment of the Pakistan National Research Centre of Intercropping (NRCI) at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) was officially approved, according to a report published by China Economic Net (CEN) on Sunday. This will be the first-ever national research center regarding intercropping technologies in Pakistan. “Before this, there was no national research center […]
Pakistan’s First-Ever Research Center of Intercropping Officially Approved
ISLAMABAD: The establishment of the Pakistan National Research Centre of Intercropping (NRCI) at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) was officially approved, according to a report published by China Economic Net (CEN) on Sunday. This will be the first-ever national research center regarding intercropping technologies in Pakistan. “Before this, there was no national research center […]
Growers Encourage to Cultivate BT Cotton
Agriculture experts had advised growers to prefer the cultivation of BT cotton varieties along with 10 percent area of non-BT cotton crops to save it from pest attacks. A spokesperson for the Agriculture Extension Department said on Tuesday that the government had set a target of 200,000 acres for bringing it under cotton cultivation this […]
About all Cash Crops is Genetically Engineered Now
More than 90 percent of all corn, cotton, and soybeans planted in the U.S. are genetically engineered, according to data from the Department of Agriculture. The number of crops modified to be herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant has increased dramatically since 2000. That year, a quarter of corn planted was genetically engineered. Now, 20 years later, about 92 […]
Soorty Inaugurate Organic Cotton Initiative in Pakistan
Soorty, a Pakistan-based vertical denim manufacturing company announced the launch of Soorty Organic Cotton Initiative, in partnership with WWF-Pakistan, and the Department of Agriculture Extension, Balochistan, based on a program that brings organic farming practices and a better way of life to farmers in the Balochistan region of Pakistan. “SOCI goes beyond just cultivating organic cotton,” […]
Bangladesh developing new generation of genetically engineered disease-resistant Bt eggplant to fight plant diseases, dramatically cutting insecticide use
Starting with only 20 farmers in 2014, the technology of Bt brinjal – a crop developed to drastically lower hazardous pesticide application – reached 65,000 eggplant growers this year, making it the fastest expanding biotech product in Bangladesh. Now, riding on the huge success of Bangladesh’s fastest expanding biotech crop, breeders are working on developing two new […]
Coronavirus: 50% of third wave cases due to UK variant, 25% because of South African variant
Professor Dr. Iqbal Choudhary shared on Thursday that a study conducted by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) showed that close to 50% of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan’s were due to the UK variant, while 25% were because of the South African variant, reported The News on Friday. The details about the impact of the South […]
Breeders Developing Extra Resistant Brinjal Varieties
Bt brinjal, a genetically modified eggplant variety, was developed to fight fruit and shoot borer that used to cause colossal crop loss in Bangladesh’s brinjal fields but not anymore. Dr. Md Jahangir Hossain, who coordinates biotech brinjal and late blight-resistant potato project in Bangladesh, told this correspondent that in 2020-21 crop year as many as […]