Month: December 2022

Technology Gap in Agriculture

  • December 7, 2022
Agricultural productivity in the country has stagnated for want of optimum technology applications. Most commentators tend to blame the academia and the research community for this. Admittedly, there are several research gaps but even more pronounced is a lack of skill, innovation and adoption. There are many ways to look at the challenge land and […]
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Agri Insurance Essential for Farmers’ Economic Security

  • December 7, 2022
ISLAMABAD-Agricultural insurance is crucial for ensuring farmers financial security in the wake of extreme events, which often cause extensive damage to their crops. However, unfortunately, agri-insurance has not attracted significant attention in Pakistan primarily because the country’s agricultural sector is riskier due to a range of factors.  Talking to Wealth, Irshad Khan Abbasi, Head of […]
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Agriculture Plays Vital Role in Economy: Mohibullah

  • December 7, 2022
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Mohibullah Khan has said that agriculture has an important role in national economy, crop production of the land owners and Foods needs of the province, so the agriculture sector cannot be neglected. He directed to ensure the provision of maximum facilities to the farmers so that their income […]
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Exploitation of Farmers

  • December 7, 2022
The fight of farmers is complicated, multifaceted, but extremely important. They fight to secure food and future of humanity. They should be treated as hero, especially in a country where 58. 8pc population is food insecure. But, Pakistan is not recognizing this, rather moving in other direction. The insensitive behavior of the state has broken […]
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Pakistan Looks Forward to Cooperating with China on Banana Cultivation

  • December 7, 2022
BEIJING – Pakistan is looking forward to cooperate with China through collaborative research in an effort to enhance its production of banana. Chinas contribution to the international banana market is around 4. 5. However Pakistanis contribution is less than 0. 5. We are far behind. I think China and Pakistan can cooperate through collaborative research. […]
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Tissue Culture Tech Seen to Help Coconut Farmers

  • December 7, 2022
The Philippine Coconut Authority PCA underscored that innovating sustainable and climate-resilient means of coconut production is a top priority to help coconut farmers achieve better and increased yields. PCA deputy administrator Roel Rosales said Thursday, December 1, during the Davao Region Coconut Conference and Trade Summit that they are close to perfecting the process of […]
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Phinest Cannabis Introduces Symbiotic Genetics into the Tissue Culture Roster

  • December 7, 2022
Cannabis, California’s leading cannabis micro propagation nursery and operator of North Americas largest cannabis tissue culture facility announces a new licensing agreement with Symbiotic Genetics. Under the agreement, Phinest nursery is granted a license for two cannabis cultivars, one exclusively, for sale to licensed cultivators and retailers throughout California. Founded in 2014, Symbiotic Genetics has […]
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Syngenta Launches App for Farmers to Diagnose Crop Pests, Diseases

  • December 2, 2022
Syngenta Pakistan Limited, a leading agriculture innovation and technology company – providing crop protection, biologicals, seeds, crop-enhancement products and digital services to millions of Pakistani farmers, has successfully launched the updated version of its “Cropwise Grower” app which will now allow the farmers to conveniently detect and diagnose crop pests & diseases by simply taking […]
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Jain Introduces Value of Water Tracking Into Smart Irrigation

  • December 2, 2022
Jain Irrigation, Inc., the world leader in irrigation technology for landscape, turf, and agricultural irrigation continues its history of smart irrigation technology “firsts” and innovation for commercial landscaping with the release of water cost monitoring in its patented, award-winning JAIN Unity cloud-based automation. Unity is the first EPA WaterSense-certified weather-based irrigation control product that lets […]
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Editorial: Tissue Donations can Sake Science, Animals

  • December 2, 2022
The city has long considered the animal tissue biomedical waste and discarded it.But it could instead be used to create in-vitro cell culture models as an alternative to testing chemicals on live animals, greatly reducing the use of animals in laboratory research. UNM School of Nursing professor and researcher Xiaozhong (John) Yu says if researchers […]
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