Month: November 2021

Modern Technology to Be Used For Growth of Agriculture Sector: CM’s Aide

  • November 17, 2021
Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Sindh for Information Science and Technology (IST) Tanzeela Umm-e-Habiba Monday said that Sindh was a land of Sufis and skilled people and we intend to utilize modern technology to further boost and promote the agriculture sector. She said that Shaheed Elahi Bakhsh Soomro University of Arts, Design, and Heritage […]
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Farm Turns to Robots to Fill Labor Needs

  • November 17, 2021
AppHarvest is a company that develops high-tech indoor farms designed to grow non-GMO, chemical pesticide-free produce. It has three sites in Kentucky where it claims to use up to 90% less water than open-field agriculture and only rainwater. In recent years, they have collected the world’s largest data set of tomato images, according to the […]
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Missouri Soybean Partnership with the University of Georgia to Expand High Oleic Footprint

  • November 17, 2021
Missouri Soybean partnered with the University of Georgia to run a license that combines the university’s high oleic soybeans with non-GMO soybean varieties developed by Missouri Soybean. The Missouri Soybean High Oleic Soyleic currently has maturity clusters grown from Missouri northward, according to Bryan Stobaugh, Missouri Soybean director of licensing and genetics. This expands that […]
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Fatima Fertilizer, UAF host Sarsabz Farmers’ Convention

  • November 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Fatima Fertilizer collaborated with the Punjab Government’s Department of Agriculture and the Agriculture University of Faisalabad (UAF) to host Sarsabz Farmer Convention related to wheat cultivation during Rabi 2021-22. The convention was hosted by UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr. Iqrar Ahmed Khan, in the presence of Chief Guest Hussain Jahanian Gardezi, the Provincial Minister […]
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UNFAO Country Head Calls for Addressing Problems of Agriculture, Food Security

  • November 3, 2021
KARACHI: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) country head in Pakistan Florence Rolle stressed the need for working together in a bid to develop agriculture and resolve problems of food security. Florence Rolle, accompanied by UNFAO director programs Dr. Aamir Irshad, visited the Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tandojam on Saturday and discussed issues of […]
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