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ArticlesFORAGE YIELD AND QUALITY PERFORMANCE OF RABI CEREALS SOWN ALONE AND IN BLENDED POPULATION AT VARIABLE SEED RATIOS
Muhammad Tahir, Nawal Zafar
Fodder crops are the main source of animal feed in Pakistan. However, the yield per acre is still far below than optimum production level of the livestock. From this perspective, a field trial was conducted using seeds of three cereal crops wheat, oat and barl…
1 Apr 2018- Articles
INTERPRETING WHEAT GENOTYPES FOR GRAIN YIELD UNDER DIFFERENT REGIMES OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Nasarullah, Raiz uddin, Fakhar Uddin, Muhammad Jamal
Pakistan has been blessed with wide range of environmental conditions ranging from plains to mountains. Wheat is grown throughout the country to feed more than 200 million people. To get maximum yield, high yielding genotypes suitable to diverse ag…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EFFECTS OF EXOGENOUS NITROGEN LEVELS ON THE YIELD OF RICE GRAIN IN SHEIKHUPURA, PAKISTAN
Muhammad Nawaz, Anwar Javaid Wahla, Muhammad Saleem Kashif, Masood Qadir Waqar, Muhammad Anjum Ali, Asim Raza Chadhar
A three-year field experiment was conducted at Adaptive Research Farm, Sheikhupura to optimize the nitrogen levels for two coarse cultivars. The coarse rice cultivars are the non-basmati rice cultivars having no fragrance. The experiment was laid out in…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
APPLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF IRRIGATION WATER UNDER VARIOUS SIZES OF CENTER PIVOT SPRINKLER SYSTEMS
Zafar Islam, Abdul Ghafoor Mangrio, Muhammad Munir Ahmad, Ghani Akber, Sher Muhammad, Muhammad Umair et al.
The field study was carried out to evaluate the comparative efficiency of three low pressure central pivot sprinkler irrigation systems for their water distribution, uniformity and tendency to recommend changes in system maintenance or repair. The…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
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ROLE OF HONEY BEES FORAGING ACTIVITIES IN INCREASED FRUIT SETTING, PRODUCTION OF APPLES APIS MELLIFERA MALUS DOMESTICA
The study was executed at Murree Hills, Pakistan to evaluate the effect of honey bee ( ) foraging activities on number of apple fruits per panicle and enhancement of apple weight. Apple Ameri trees were applied with natural pollination (T ) , pollination…
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 - 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
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
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 - 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
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
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
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
EXPLORING POTENTIAL AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PAKISTAN'S COTTON EXPORT
Ghulam Sadiq Afridi, Abdul Saboor, Zahoor-ul-Haq, Sultan Ali Tariq, Muhammad Ishaq
Agriculture is the single largest shareholder to GDP and employment to labour force. It has major share in export but unfortunately unable to meet international standards. This study aims to analyze the pattern of Pakistan cotton export, and to explore s…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
PREDATORY APTNESS OF ANTS AGAINST RED FLOUR BEETLE, TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM HERBST (TENEBRIONIDAE: COLEOPTERA) IN WHEAT FLOUR
Farid Asif Shaheen, Sadia Parveen, Ahmed Zia, Ghulam Qadir, Mureed Husain, Rifat Ullah Khan
The red flour beetle (RFB), Tribolium castaneum is one of the most destructive pests of stored grains and other food products including wheat flour. Due to its severe infestation, the flour gets mouldy, turns yellowish, gets pungent odour and becomes unh…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
BIO-CHEMICAL EVALUATION OF HONEY PRODUCED BY APIS MELLIFERA HONEYBEE COLLECTED FROM JHANG, BAHAWALPUR, MULTAN, JHELUM AND KALAR KAHAR AREAS
Samina Qamer, Iram Nasir, Um-Habiba Zafar, Salma Sultana, Tayyaba Sultana
The values of various quality criteria of Pakistani honeys were found within the permissible limits. The average moisture contents were 18.30%, 18.35%, 17.66%,16.27% and 18.7% from Jhang, Bahawalpur, KalarKahar, Multanand, and Jhelum, respectively. Similarly,…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF PGPR STRAINS ON SUNFLOWER GROWTH AND NUTRIENT CONTENTS UNDER SALINITY STRESS
Muhammad Zahid Kiani, Tariq Sultan, Arshad Ali, Ghulam Qadir*** Imdad Ali Mahmood, Tauseef Tabassam, Muhammad Arshad Ullah et al.
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are potentially useful for stimulating plant growth under harsh environment. A pot trial was conducted to examine the performance of four isolated strains in five treatments viz., KS 44, KS 7, KS 41, KS 42 and…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF TOPPING UNDER DIFFERENT NITROGEN LEVELS ON EARLINESS AND YIELD OF COTTON
Muhammad Farrukh Saleem, Munir Ahmad, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza, Abdul Shakoor
Cotton is perennial plant with indeterminate growth habit. However it has been adopted as annual, so efforts like topping and optimum nitrogen levels to modify its architecture can play a role in improving its success as annual. A field experiment to stu…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF SOIL AMENDMENTS ON SOIL CAPPING IN MUNGBEAN PRODUCTION USING CENTRAL PIVOT IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN CLAYEY SOILS
Muhammad Mansoor, Noman Latif, Zafar Islam, Sher Muhammad, Amanullah, Muhammad Umair
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the soil capping problem under central pivot irrigation system using different soil amendments. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design, replicated thrice. Mungbean (Vigna radiata L ) v…
1 Apr 2018 - Articles
COMPETITIVENESS OF TOMATO PRODUCTION IN PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Waqar Akhtar, Muhammad Sharif, Abdul Hayee Qureshi, Khalid Mahmood Aujla, Muhammad Azeem Khan
The study measures competitiveness at farm level and economic efficiency at country level of tomato production in relation to tomato trade by using Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) framework in Punjab, Pakistan. The province was divided into two tomato produ…
1 Apr 2018