Issue · 2016
Vol.29, Iss. 3
13 articles · All issues →
ArticlesFIELD EVALUATION OF A WHEAT STRAW CHOPPER
Hafiz Sultan Mahmood, Tanveer Ahmad, Zulfiqar Ali, Munir Ahmad, Nadeem Amjad
Wheat straw chopper is a resource conservation technology that makes chaff from combine-harvested wheat straw and saves the environment from smoke pollution, if straw is burnt in the field. Field performance of this technology has not been evaluated yet,…
1 Apr 2018- Articles
GROWTH AND YIELD COMPARISONS OF FOUR COMMERCIAL WHEAT VARIETIES TO IRRIGATION FREQUENCIES
Nisar Ahmed Soomro, Abdul Fatah Soomro, Hamz Ali Samo, Muhammad Siddique Depar
To examine the comparative response of wheat varieties to different irrigation regimes, four varieties namely, Kiran, Imdad-2005, TJ-83 and T.D-1 were supplied with 3 (IR ), 4 (IR ) and 5 (IR ) irrigations during the entire cropping season. The crop given 5 ir…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF SEED PRIMING ON GERMINATION PERFORMANCE AND YIELD OF OKRA ( L.)
Inayat-Ur-Rahman, Shamsher Ali, Mukhtar Alam, Mohammad Adnan, Hidayat ullah, Muhammad Faisal Anwar Malik et al.
To overcome the problem of slow and erratic emergence in okra, two experiments, i.e., laboratory and field were carried out during 2013. In the laboratory experiment, okra seeds were primed in PEG-8000 (polyethylene glycol) and Mannitol solutions (0, -0.…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
FARMERS PERCEPTION TOWARDS THE APPLICATION OF BIOZOTE IN SELECTED DEMONSTRATED RICE FIELDS AT HAFIZABAD AND SHEIKHUPURA DISTRICTS
Muhammad Nisar Khan, Hassnain Shah, Saqib Shakeel Abbasi, Abid Hussain
Bio-fertilizers, besides their role in soil health improvement are also considered environment friendly and a cheap substitute for fertilizer. Biozote application in rice crop was demonstrated at farmers' fields in Hafizabad and Sheikhupura districts under the…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
DIVERSITY AND RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF CITRUS POLLINATORS IN DISTRICT HARIPUR, PAKISTAN
Abdul Haq, Anjum Shehzad, Muhammad Ilyas, Muhammad Ishaque Mastoi, Abdul Rauf Bhatti, Mian Inayatullah
As many as 3094 specimens of adult citrus pollinators collected from district Haripur represented four orders of insects i.e., Diptera with 16 species, Hymenoptera with 14 species, Lepidoptera with 3 species and Coleoptera with 2 species. The calculated…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
RESISTANCE RESPONSE OF RICE ( L.) GERMPLASM AGAINST RICE LEAF FOLDER ( G.) UNDER GREENHOUSE CONDITION IN PAKISTAN
Ishaq Ahmad, Abdul Rehman, Ehsan –Ul- Haq, Arif Mahmood
Rice leaf folder ( G.) is a key insect pest of rice crop and distributed all over the rice growing areas of the world including Pakistan. The infestation of rice leaf folder often appears very suddenly resulting in huge yield losses. Host plant res…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
PIERID (LEPIDOPTERA: PIERIDAE) PESTS AND THEIR NEW CRUCIFERS HOSTS IN POTHWAR REGION OF PAKISTAN
Syed Waqar Shah, Muhammad Ather Rafi
Field surveys were conducted in Pothwar region during January 2012-December 2013 to find out the pierids pests on cultivated and non-cultivated cruciferous plants, the known cultivated hosts such as , , ,, var. and were attacked by , and . Among above re…
1 Apr 2018 
ArticlesEFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS OF PAKISTAN'S FARM SECTOR: A META-ANALYSIS*
Hina Fatima, Bushra Yasmin
Farm production and efficiency have always been a primary research question for researchers and agricultural organizations of Pakistan. Meta-analysis in present study provides the statistical efficiency analysis as well as statistical information regardi…
1 Apr 2018- Articles
EFFECT OF DEFICIT IRRIGATION, SOWING METHODS AND MULCHING ON WHEAT YIELD AND NITROGEN UPTAKE
Abdul Razaq, Muhammad Jamal Khan, Tahir Sarwar, Mohammad Jamal Khan
To determine the irrigation water scarcity, inefficient irrigation supplies to farm lands, increasing temperature with high evaporation rate and poor sowing, an experiment was conducted at the research farm of the University of Agriculture, Peshawar during 201…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
IMPACT OF VARIABLE SEEDING DATES ON CEREALS' PERFORMANCE UNDER AGRO-ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF DERA ISMAIL KHAN
Shahid Iqbal Khattak, Muhammad Amjad Nadim, Mohammad Safdar Baloch, Kashif Waseem, Muhammad Sohail
Performance of cereals was studied through a two factors field experiment under split-plot arrangements at Agricultural Research Institute, D.I.Khan during 2012-13. Four cereals (wheat, triticale, barley, oat) were assigned to main plots while six differ…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
ASSESSMENT OF RIPARIAN VEGETATION IN DHRABI WATERSHED AND CHAKWAL REGION IN PAKISTAN
Dilawar Khan, Abid Saeed, Junaid Ahmad, Imtiaz Qamar, Fazal Yazdan, Saleem ud Din et al.
Most of Pakistan lies in arid and semi-arid environment where forage for rearing of livestock and food for human being is the better option for that land use systems. Dhrabi watershed is one of the areas where, there is a high potential for forage and li…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
INTERDECADAL GROWTH VARIABILITY AND DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS OF FRUIT CROPS IN PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Mubbashira Nazir, Saira Batool, Sultan Ali Tariq, Abid Hussain, Ya Sakina
Horticulture has a well realized role in providing essential major and micro nutrients in the diets of people in Pakistan. The study examines the trends and variation of area, production and yield of fruit crops in Punjab province from 1971 to 2014. The…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL FORECASTING MODEL FOR DATES PRODUCTION IN PAKISTAN
Saleem Abid, Anum Fatima, Sobia Naheed, Asrar Sarwar, Muhammad Nisar Khan
This study was carried out to examine prospect trends of dates area and production in Pakistan by using time series data from 1980- 81 to 2012-13 (32 years).Three accuracy measures were used for the selection of best fitted model. These accuracy measures…
1 Apr 2018