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ArticlesFARMERS 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 - 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
FIELD 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
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
IMPROVEMENT OF MASH BEAN PRODUCTION UNDER RAINFED CONDITIONS BY RHIZOBIUM INOCULATION AND LOW RATES OF STARTER NITROGEN
Zammurad Iqbal Ahmed, Muhammad Ansar, Ashiq Saleem, Zafar ullah Arif, H.I. Javed, Rashid Saleem
The study was conducted at research farm of PMAS - Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi during autumn 2009. Two mash bean varieties viz., NARC Mash-II and NARC Mash-III and the treatment -1 combinations applied were control, 20, 40 and 50 kg N ha , 75…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
GENETIC DIVERSITY ANALYSIS AND CHARACTER ASSOCIATION IN SOME CHINESE HYBRID RICE UNDER DRY CONDITIONS
Muhammad Yaqoob, Rukhsana Anjum, Mumtaz Hussain, Muhammad Jahangir Shah
Water shortage, being a serious threat to agriculture in Pakistan can be possibly overcome through development of high yielding drought tolerant varieties. A field study was therefore, conducted to evaluate the performance of 10 hybrid rice along with two high…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
ROLE OF FARMER FIELD SCHOOLS IN ENHANCING SKILLS OF FARMING COMMUNITY IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN
Amir Khatam, Sher Muhammad, Ijaz Ashraf
Farmer Field School (FFS) is a capacity building approach, which provides opportunities to farmers of improving various skills through practicing various techniques by themselves. Considering therefore, the importance of this approach, the study was cond…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EVALUATION OF INDIGENOUS TOMATO HYBRIDS UNDER PLASTIC TUNNEL
Muhammad Farooq, Hidayat Ullah, Nausherwan Nobel Nawab, Khalid Mahmood Qureshi
Seventeen locally developed indeterminate tomato hybrids were evaluated along with 'Sahel' as check under plastic tunnel for yield and yield components at National Agricultural Research Centre, -1 Islamabad. Maximum yield of 71.58 tha was recorded in NTT…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
INSTITUTIONAL CREDIT ARRANGEMENT AND THEIR IMPLICATION ON AGRICULTURAL INCOME IN THE SELECTED VILLAGES OF RAWALPINDI DISTRICT
Naheed Zahra, Muhammad Zubair Anwar, Sonila Hassan, Irfan Mehmood
Finance is the crucial instrument to boost the income earning capacity of subsistence farmers. The aim of the present research was to ascertain the impact of institutional credit on the agricultural income of the sample farmers. The study was based on th…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
COMPARATIVE PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF RECOMMENDED MUNGBEAN VARIETIES AT NARC EXPERIMENTAL STATION, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
Nusrat Habib, Muhammad Zubair Anwar, Ikram Saeed
The present research study was designed to find out comparative profitability of different mungbean varieties cultivated at experimental station National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad and thus recommend a higher profit earning variety to…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
PERFORMANCE OF SUMMER FORAGE LEGUMES AND THEIR RESIDUAL EFFECT ON SUBSEQUENT OAT CROP IN SUBTROPICAL SUBHUMID POTHWAR, PAKISTAN
Imtiaz Ahmad Qamar, Maqsood Ahmad, Gulshan Riaz, Sartaj Khan
The present study was conducted to assess the performance of five tropical forage legumes namely sesbania (Sesbania aculeata), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata), rice beans (Vigna umbellata), lablab bean (Lablab purpureus) and cluster bean (Cymopsis tetragonol…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
MILK PRODUCTION POTENTIAL IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Abdul Hassan, Muhammad Ishaq, Nisar Ali Shah, Arshad Farooq
This study was conducted in three agro-ecological regions, namely, barani areas, wet mountains and Northern dry mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by using concept of typical farms. The yield and production of milk gap was estimated in three scena…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
IMPACT OF FERTILIZER USE ON WEED MANAGEMENT IN CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE - A REVIEW
Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Ehsanullah, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Wahaj Nafees, Mohsin Tanveer, Hafiz Salman Saeed
Intensive farming has been adopted to produce large amounts of food grains and cash crops but environment is being deteriorated at alarming rate also. Increased use of fertilizers, pesticides, chemical growth regulators, machinery and poor manageme…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
GENETIC DIVERSITY IN UPLAND COTTON FOR COTTON LEAF CURL VIRUS DISEASE, EARLINESS AND FIBER QUALITY
Frasat Saeed, Jehanzeb Farooq, Abid Mahmood, Tassawar Hussain, Muhammad Riaz, Saghir Ahmad
In Pakistan during last two decades the major factor limiting cotton production is cotton leaf curl virus disease (CLCuD). For estimation of genetic diversity regarding CLCuD tolerance, fiber quality and some yield contributing traits, 101 cotton g…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
ESTIMATION OF GENETIC DIVERSITY AND HYBRID IDENTIFICATION IN AMERICAN COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.) BY PCR BASED RAPD ANALYSIS
Rashid Minhas, Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, Faisal Saeed Awan, Lal Hussain Akhtar, Syed Awais Sajid Shah, M. Shahjhan Bukhari
DNA of 15 cotton genotypes comprising five parents and their ten F hybrids was extracted successfully from their immature leaves to estimate 1 genetic diversity and hybrid identification. Out of the 26 RAPD primers used for DNA amplification, 14 primers…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF FOLIAR APPLICATION OF ZINC ON YIELD AND OIL CONTENTS OF FLAX
Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Irfan, Aziz-Ur-Rehman
The foliar application of micronutrients increases the yield and oil contents of flax. The present field study was conducted to find out the effect of foliar application of zinc on yield, yield components and oil contents of flax. The experiment was laid…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF MIXING LOW PALATABLE GRASS OF HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS WITH IPIL IPIL LEAVES ON DIGESTIBILITY IN GOATS
Maimoona Bashir, Imtiaz Ahmad Qamar, Muhammad Fateh Ullah Khan, Raheel Babar
The study was conducted at the National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan during 2012 to find out the effect of mixing low palatable grasses of Heteropogon contortus (HC), with tree leaves of Leucaena leucocephala (Ipil ipil, II) in the ratio o…
31 Mar 2018