Issue · 2016
Vol.29, Iss. 4
12 articles · All issues →
ArticlesRELATIVE PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF SUNFLOWER IN DISTRICT SWABI AND MARDAN
Nusrat Habib
Sunflower is one of the most important among edible oil crops growing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was introduced in the province during 1976 but commercially adopted by a large number of farmers only by 1990's. Sunflower cultivation trend kept on increasin…
1 Apr 2018- Articles
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT PEA (PISUM SATIVUM L.) GENOTYPES FOR YIELD AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES AT SHINKIARI, MANSEHRA
Basharat Hussain Shah, F. S. Hamid, Shams ul Islam, Fayaz Ahmad, Sohail Aslam, Noorullah Khan
The present research work was designed to find out the amount of genetic variability that may exist in different pea cultivars. For this purpose six advance lines/commercial pea varieties were collected from Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI) Fa…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
RESPONSE OF DIFFERENT COTTON ( L.) GENOTYPES AT VARIOUS SALINITY LEVELS
Muhammad Bilal, Zafar Abbas, Ijaz Ahmad, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Ijaz, Adnan Shakeel et al.
Keeping in view the salt stress threat in Pakistan, a hypothesis was developed that up to what level of salt, the cotton genotypes can survive so that it may provide the shelter for income from textile industry, as mainly the textile industry depends upo…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF MICRONUTRIENTS FOLIAR APPLICATION ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF MAIZE
Muhammad Tahir, Neelam Yasin
Micronutrients have globally proven importantance in agriculture. The deficiency of micronutrients is an expected trend among cereal crops which confines yield and nutritional value of grains. A field trial was laid out to evaluate the effect of micronut…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF ORGANIC MANURES AND INORGANIC FERTILIZERS ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF RADISH ( L)
Mehwish Kiran, Muhammad Saleem Jilani, Kashif Waseem, Muhammad Sohail
A pot experiment was carried out to check the response of different organic manures and inorganic fertilizers on the growth and yield of radish, at Horticulture Departmental experimental area, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, D.I. Khan. The expe…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEM TO FACILITATE FARMERS IN WHEAT, SUGARCANE AND OTHER CROP DISEASES IDENTIFICATION
Arshia Naeem, Maria Anjum, Mariam Rehman, Zahid Mahmood, Muhammad Asif Kamran
E-agriculture is an emerging area that integrates agriculture and rural development with information communication technology (ICT). In developing countries such as Pakistan, economy largely depends on agriculture. Therefore, the need to move from conven…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
SURVEILLANCE OF BRUCELLOSIS IN LIVESTOCK IN RURAL COMMUNITIES OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Ghazala Nawaz, Muhammad Nawaz Malik, Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq, Fraz Munir Ahmad, Ali Abdullah Shah, Farooq Iqbal et al.
Brucellosis is an emerging animal as well as human health issue in Pakistan. Population based estimation of true prevalence is time occurring in different livestock species and requires to develop prevention and control strategy, that hasn't been done in…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON IMPACT OF BIO AND ORGANOMINERAL FERTILIZES ON COMPOSITION AND SHELF LIFE OF TOMATO ( ) FRUIT.
Sadaf Javaria, Muhammad Qasim Khan, Kashif Waseem, Muhammad Saleem Jilani, Habib ur Rahman, Muhammad Sohail Khan et al.
The present investigation was aimed to evaluate the impact of different nutrient sources viz., bio-fertilizer (effective microorganisms) with or without organic manure (Farmyard Manure) and inorganic fertilizer (NPK) on the quality characteristics of tom…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
INVESTIGATION ENERGY AND ECONOMICS ANALYSIS OF MAIZE PRODUCATION
Shafique Qadir Memon, Nadeem Amjad, Riaz Ahmed Dayo
This study was conducted at the experimental site in Islamabad, Pakistan, in spring season 2013 (March – July). A randomized complete block design with three treatments and replicated thrice were used in this study, fertilizers were evaluated on th…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF POTATO LEAF ROLL VIRUS DISEASE PREDICTION MODEL BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FOR FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN
Ummad-ud-Din Umar, Muhammad Aslam Khan, Ateeq-urRehman, Abdul Hannan, Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi, Azhar Ali Khan et al.
A disease predictive model for Potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) was developed based on a ten year dataset of disease incidence and environmental variables and validated by two years data collected in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Maximum and minimum air temperature…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
ASSESSING THE STATUS OF CARBON POOL IN TWO RANGELAND GRASSES ( ) IN POTHWAR, REGION, PAKISTAN
Mohammad Umar Farooq, Sarfraz Ahmad, Mohammad Islam, Imtiaz Ahmad Qamar
Carbon sequestration study was conducted in two rangeland grasses and in field area of Rangeland Research Institute (RRI), National Agricultural Research Centre, (NARC), Islamabad. Carbon is considered as the most important component of green house gases…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
NAVIGATING FARMING RISKS BY SIMULTANEOUS DIVERSIFICATION AND CREDIT THROUGH FORMAL AND INFORMAL COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
Raza Ullah, Mariam Rehman, Maria Anjum, Muhammad Asif Kamran, Khuda Bakhsh, Abdul Saboor
Main purpose of the study is to investigate the role of access to information on farmers' risk management adoption decisions keeping in view the potential correlation between these risk management adoption decisions. Bivariate and multinomial probit mode…
1 Apr 2018