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ArticlesSUPPLY, DEMAND, AND POLICY ENVIRONMENT FOR PULSES IN PAKISTAN
Saima Rani, Hassnain Shah, Umar Farooq, Bushra Rehman
The present study was undertaken to verify the various factors influencing the supply of pulses and to develop suitable demand relations. Therefore the paper fills an information gap regarding factors affecting the supply and demand of pulses in Pakistan…
31 Mar 2018- Articles
PARTIAL RESISTANCE TO STRIPE RUST AND ITS EFFECT ON SUSTAINABILITY OF WHEAT YIELD
Maqsood Qamar, S. Dilanawaz Ahmad Gardazi, Riaz-ud-Din, Muhammad Sohail, Syed Haider Abbas
Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. tritici) poses a serious threat to wheat production in cooler areas of Pakistan. The 70% area of wheat in Pakistan is prone to stripe rust disease. It can cause 10-17% yield losses if susceptible cultivar…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
ESTABLISHMENT OF IN VITRO CULTURE OF GRAPES
Muhammad Ali, Ghulam Mustafa Sajid, M. Faisal Anwar Malik, Kalimullah
The establishment of in vitro culture from shoot tip explants (meristemetic tissue) of grapes was investigated through tissue culture technique. These explants were collected from gene bank of Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
LIVELIHOOD ASSETS AND POVERTY NEXUS: A CASE STUDY FROM RAINFED POTHWAR AREA OF PAKISTAN
Naheed Zahra, Hassnain Shah, M. Azeem Khan, M. Zubair Anwar
The present paper is based on primary data collected from a sample of 40 households arround watershed project site at Fateh Jang in Pothwar region. The inter-linkage of livelihood assets and poverty is determined by employing poverty score card technique…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CROSS-FLOW RICE DRYERS
Munir Ahmad, Asif Ali Mirani, Hafiz Sultan Mahmood, Tanveer Ahmad, Muhammad Azhar Saeed
A considerable amount of rice grains is wasted every year in Pakistan because of unavailability of postharvest drying and processing technologies. About 70% of the rice produced in the country is dried through sun heat. which is one of the major causes o…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
SHIFT FROM SITE DEVELOPMENT TO SKILL DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF WATER HARVESTING THROUGH MICRO CATCHMENTS
Hassnain Shah, Nadeem Akmal, Waqas Farooq, Muhammad Azeem Khan, Shahid Munir
The present study was conducted to get insight about farmers' intention towards adoption of micro catchments as a useful tool for rainwater harvesting. The assessment of acceptability and compatibility of the intervention through farmers' perceptio…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
COMPARISON OF INDIGENOUSLY DEVELOPED TANGERINE-ORANGE MARMALADE WITH BRANDED MARMALADES AVAILABLE AT LOCAL MARKETS
Ambreen Akhtar Saddozai, Amer Mumtaz, Nouman Rashid, Shahzada Arshad Saleem, Saeeda Raza, Muhammad Naeem Safdar
The objective of this study was to compare the nutritional composition and microbial quality of both branded and non-branded marmalades. Oranges were purchased from local markets while tangerines were product of in-house farm at Food Science and Product…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION ON INCOME INEQUALITY IN PAKISTAN
Muhammad Aamir Khan, Abdul Saboor, Rauf-i-Azam, Abdul Qayyum Mohsin, Fayyaz-ul-Hassan
Trade liberalization has long been recognized as a key element in sustainable development. Liberalized Trade has been adopted by many developing countries to increase economic growth and therefore reducing poverty. In this backdrop, the current study eva…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EFFECT OF MIXING LOW PALATABLE GRASSES AND IPIL IPIL LEAVES ON FORAGE QUALITY
Maimoona Bashir, Imtiaz Ahmad Qamar, Muhammad Fateh Ullah Khan, Abdul Razzaq
The study was conducted at the National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan to investigate the impact of mixing low palatable grasses namely Heteropogon contortus, Desmostachya bipinnata, Sorghum halepense and Chrysopogon aucheri with tree…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
WOMEN COTTON PICKERS PERCEPTIONS ABOUT HEALTH HAZARDS DUE TO PESTICIDE USE IN IRRIGATED PUNJAB
Mazher Abbas, Irfan Mehmood, Arshed Bashir, Muhammad Ather Mehmood, Sonila Hassan
In Pakistan, cotton crop has special importance from the perspective of largest employment generation both for males and females in the production and value chains. Cotton picking is primarily a female specific activity in all cropping zones of Pakistan.…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
PERCEPTION, APPROACHES AND PRACTICES OF LOCAL FARMING AND DEVELOPMENT: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH
Syeda Aimen Hadi, Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, Aftab Ahmed, Shaheer Ellahi Khan
The study focused on recognizing the local approaches of farming in designing and implementation of development projects. These approaches are representative of a particular ecological, social, economical, and political system, shaped by the constraints…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
CHARACTERIZATION OF PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA ISOLATED FROM ROOT SYSTEM OF SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUS L) GROWN UNDER SALT AFFECTED AREA OF PAKISTAN
Muhammad Zahid Kiani, Arshad Ali, Tariq Sultan, Muhammad Munir Ahmed
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) directly promote plant growth by providing indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), solubilization of inorganic phosphates, nitrogen fixation and siderophores and other organic acid production, whereas indirectly support pl…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
TRENDS IN WHOLESALE PRICES OF ONION AND POTATO IN MAJOR MARKETS OF PAKISTAN: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Anum Fatima, Saleem Abid, Sobia Naheed
This study was conducted to examine the trends in wholesale prices of onion and potato in the major markets (Lahore, Hyderabad, Peshawar and Quetta) of Pakistan. Time series data about annual average wholesale prices of onion and potato were collected fr…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES IN DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION TO THE FARMING COMMUNITY OF DISTRICT BHIMBER, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Muhammad Asif Jamil, Nowshad Khan, FarhatUllah Khan, Muhammad Zakria
This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of extension advisory services for farming community of Bhimber district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The convenient sampling as well as multistage sampling method was used to collect the data from the st…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
HETEROSIS AND HETROBELTIOSIS PERFORMANCE OF MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS IN BREAD WHEAT CROSSES UNDER DROUGHT STRESS CONDITIONS
Said Salman, Shah Jehan Khan, Javed Khan
The study was designed to observe the heterotic and heterobeltiotic effects in F s of four different crosses having four drought 1 tolerant cultivars and four susceptible lines as parents. The experiment was conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT TOMATO CULTIVARS UNDER ORGANIC AND INORGANIC REGIMES
Ibrar Ali, Abdul Mateen Khattak, Muhammad Ali, Kalim Ullah
To study the performance of different tomato cultivars under organic and inorganic regimes an experiment was conducted at New Developmental Farm, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan during the summer 2013-14. The experiment was laid out in…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
MAJOR FOOD CROPS PRODUCTION AND YIELD FORECAST IN PAKISTAN
Nouman Badar, Hina Fatima, Abdul Jabbar, Muhammad Asif
This study focuses on forecasting the production and yield of food crops in Pakistan. Utilizing the “Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average” (ARIMA) model and data from 1948 to 2011. The data was obtained from Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Is…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
TREND ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING OF WHEAT AND RICE IN PAKISTAN
Saqib Shakeel Abbasi, Ayesha Tahir, Irum Raza* Saleem Abid, Muhammad Nisar Khan
Wheat and rice are the basic requirement of every household. This paper analyses the price trends for these crops over the last 30 years and based on statistical models, forecast their prices from 2013 to 2017. Different models have been applied to get t…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT, PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND SENSORY PROPERTIES OF BISCUITS SUPPLEMENTED WITH PUMPKIN SEEDS TO COMBAT CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION IN PAKISTAN
Saima Kanwal, Saeeda Raza, Khalid Naseem, Muhammad Amjad, Naseem Bibi, Musarrat Gillani
This study was carried out in Food Science and Product Development Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2014. Nutritive pumpkin seed flour fortified biscuits were prepared with four different substituted levels of pump…
31 Mar 2018 - Articles
IMPACT OF PHOSPHORUS LEVELS AND SEED RATES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF LATE SOWN MAIZE ON HIGH ELEVATION IN SWAT, PAKISTAN
Imran, Shaheeda Naveed, Asad Ali Khan, Inayat Khattak
After nitrogen, phosphorus (P) is required by the plants relatively in large quantity and is the second most important crop nutrient that increases productivity of maize (Zea mays L.). An experiment on effect of different P O levels and seed rates on gro…
31 Mar 2018