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ArticlesROLE OF TRAININGS ON FARMERS' PROFITABILITY OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF DISTRICT SWAT, KHYBER PUKHTUNKHWA
Anwar Hussain, Muhammad Rahman
The study was conducted in District Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to show the impact of training on farmers' profitability in medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) in mountainous areas of district Swat. A convenient sample of 100 respondents, engaged in MAPs in Chai…
31 Mar 2018- Articles
MICROBIAL COUNT AND SHELF LIFE OF PHALSA (GREWIA ASIATICA) JUICE
Ambreen Akhtar Saddozai, Amer Mumtaz, Saeeda Raza, Shahzada Arshad Saleem
The study investigated the shelf life of laboratory developed phalsa juice at room temperature. Phalsa was purchased from local market, juice was prepared and kept in sterilized bottles at room temperature. Physicochemical and microbial and oragnoleptic…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZER AND WATER STRESS ON PROTEIN AND PHENOLIC CONTENTS IN COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.)
Zafar Abbas, Ijaz Ahmad, Adnan Shakeel, Muhammad Abdullah, Muhammad Islam, Sadiq Muhammad et al.
Crop quality and production are affected by various fertilizers and water stress. In present research, the response of cotton variety CIM-496 to water stress and phosphorus fertilizer was investigated. Samples were collected after 90 days of planting. Kj…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
SPATIAL PRICE TRANSMISSION IN PAKISTAN: THE CASE OF WHEAT AND RICE MARKETS
Umar Ijaz Ahmed, Liu Ying, Muhammad Khalid Bashir, Muhammad Amjed Iqbal, Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal et al.
This study investigates the spatial price transmission among major wheat and rice markets of Pakistan using their monthly retail prices. For analysis Vector Error Correction Model and Co-integration approach were employed. Results showed that wheat and r…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS IN DISTRICT MARDAN, PAKISTAN
Khurram Nawaz Saddozai, Muhammad Nasrullah, Noor P. Khan
The theme of this research was to analyze the stochastic frontier production of tobacco growers. This parametric approach was encompassed to investigate the technical efficiency of growers. The primary data was gleaned during 2014-15 from sampled populat…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
ANALYZING PRODUCTION POTENTIAL OF SELECTED FOOD AND LEGUME CROPS FOR FOOD SECURITY IN PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Muhammad Qasim, Sonila Hassan, Arshed Bashir, Hafiz Zahid Mahmood, Irfan Mehmood
The present study was designed to assess growth rate in area, yield and production of selected major food commodities and to project these parameters on the basis of estimated growth co-efficient. Time-series data for area, yield and production were coll…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
COMBINING ABILITY ANALYSIS IN VARIOUS INBRED LINES OF MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.)
Syed Asif Imran Shah, Shah Jehan Khan, Abdul Aziz Baloch, Obaid Ullah Sayal, Kalim Ullah* andShujaat Ali
An experiment to study combining ability effects through 6 × 6 diallel model in maize inbred lines, was laid out in randomized complete block design with three replications at Agricultural Research Institute, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, during 2012…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
TOXICITIES OF AZADIRACHTIN AND POLYCHLORINATED PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON AGAINST RESISTANT AND SUSCEPTIBLE STRAINS OF TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) ADULTS
Riaz Hussain, Muhammad Riaz, Mushtaq A. Saleem
The LC values for malathion-resistant (PAK) and organo- 50 phosphate-susceptible (FSS-II) strains of red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) adult beetles were determined through filter paper impregnated method against…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
ECONOMICS OF PERI-URBAN RADISH PRODUCTION AND MARKETING IN FAISALABAD
Rashed Saeed, Shoaib-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Qasim, Hafiz Zahid Mahmood, Irfan Mehmood
This study uses primary data collected from 70 radish growing farmers selected randomly from peri-urban area of district Faisalabad, Pakistan. It was found that majority of farmers were not following recommendations of the agriculture department regardin…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
INOCULATION AND INTER-CROPPING OF LEGUMES IN ESTABLISHED GRASS FOR INCREASING BIOMASS OF FODDER
Muhammad Arshad Ullah, Nazir Hussain, Helge Schmeisky, Muhammad Rasheed
Livestock sector has become very important component of agriculture sector in the world due to variety of dairy and meat products and high income to the farmers. In Pakistan, this vast resource faces many crucial challenges like low quality and high pric…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
GENETIC DIVERSITY FOR YIELD AND RELATED TRAITS IN UPLAND COTTON GENOTYPES
Kalim Ullah, Zahid Usman, Niamatullah Khan, Rehmat Ullah, Fazal Yazdan Saleem, Shahid Iqbal Khattak et al.
An experiment to evaluate the genetic variability and yield potential in cotton cultivars was conducted at the Cotton Research Station, D.I.Khan, Pakistan, during 2013. The experiment was carried out in Randomized Complete Block design replicated four ti…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
IMPROVED GROWTH, SEED YIELD AND QUALITY OF FENNEL (FOENICULUM VULGARE MILL.) THROUGH SOIL APPLIED NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS
Muhammad Ayub, Rizwan Maqbool, Muhammad Tahir, Zoaib Aslam, Muhammad Ather Nadeem, Muhammad Ibrahim
In Pakistan, fennel is conventionally grown without fertilizer. A field experiment, was conducted to study the effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer treatments (NP in ratio of 0:0, 30:0, -1 0:30, 30:15, 30:30, 60:30, 60:60, 90:45 and 90:90 kg ha…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
GROWTH AND VARIABILITY IN AREA PRODUCTION AND YIELD OF SELECTED FRUIT CROPS IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Sajid Ali, Abdul Jabbar
Growth in agricultural production along with low variability is highly desirable. The objective of this study was to investigate growth and variability in area, production and yield of selected fruit crops including apple, peach, pear, and plum in Khyber…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
IMPROVING FODDER QUALITY OF PANICUM GRASS THROUGH INTERCROPPING OF LEGUMES AND THEIR INOCULATION
Muhammad Arshad Ullah, Nazir Hussain, Helge Schmeisky, Muhammad Rasheed
A protocol was conducted under rainfed conditions for two years at National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) Islamabad, Pakistan. Treatments comprising intercropping of Panicum grass with legumes (33%, 50% and 67%) with or without inoculation to inves…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
CLIMATE VARIABILITY IMPACTS ON RICE CROP PRODUCTION IN PAKISTAN
Usman Shakoor, Abdul Saboor, Irfan Baig, Anila Afzal, Abdul Rahman
The climate variability has affected the agriculture production all over the globe. This concern has motivated important changes in the field of research during the last decade. Climate changes are believed to have declining effects towards crop producti…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
SEAFOOD EXPORTS: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD
Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Azam Niazi, Abdul Jabbar
Fisheries as a sub-sector of agriculture, is considered as one of the most important economic activity along the coastline of provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. This paper assesses current stock of seafood production, seafood exports, direction and futu…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
IMPACT OF MAJOR FARM INPUTS ON PRODUCTIVITY OF SUGARCANE: A CASE STUDY IN TEHSIL KOT ADDU, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Nusrat Habib, Saima Rani, Sabeen Siddiqui, Shah Zaman, Muhammad Zubair Anwar
The study is based on primary data collected from sugarcane growers to find out the affect of major farm inputs on the productivity of sugarcane in Tehsil Kot Addu (Punjab). The data was collected from 70 sugarcane growers during 2013 harvesting. The cos…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
COMPARATIVE PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF INDIGENOUS NAKED NECK AND NAKED NECK CROSSBRED LAYER CHICKENS
Farrukh Saleem, Babar Hilal Ahmad, Saleem Zahid, Bilal Kabeer
A study was conducted on comparative productive performance of indigenous Naked Neck (NN) and Naked Neck Crossbred (NNC) i.e., Naked Neck x White Leg Horn at Poultry and Wildlife Programme, National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakista…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
NEW RECORD OF SUBFAMILY CHARMONTINAE (BRACONIDAE: HYMENOPTERA) IN PAKISTAN WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES
Mian Sabahatullah, Manzoor Ahmad Mashwani, Qurratul Ain Tahira, Mian Inayatullah
Subfamily Charmontinae is recorded for the first time from Pakistan. Charmontinae is a small but widely distributed group of braconids. A cosmopolitan braconid species, Charmon extensor (Linnaeus), is first time recorded from Chitral area of Pakistan. A…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EFFICACY OF PLANT DERIVED OILS AND EXTRACTS AGAINST WHITEFLY, BEMISIA TABACI (GENNADIUS) ON SESAME CROP
Aniqa Iram, Javed Khan, Nadeem Aslam, Ehsan-ul-Haq, Habib Iqbal Javed, Muhammad Irfan et al.
Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) is a polyphagous pest and is reported on more than 600 host plants worldwide. Different methods are being used for its control. The present experiment was conducted to determine the effect of some plant extracts of mint (…
31 Mar 2018