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Khalid Mahmood Aujla, Sajida Taj, Khalid Mahmood, Nadeem Akmal
Wheat is the main staple diet of the people of Pakistan. There were different views for wheat yield decline and crisis in the country during 2007- 08. To assess the wheat situation and compare wheat production practices to identify the major factors of yield d…
17 Mar 2018- Articles
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Z. A. Soomro, M.B. Kumbhar, A.S. Larik, M. Imran, S.A. Brohi
Heritability (b.s), genetic advance, phenotypic and genotypic variance for different quantitative traits is important in determining the effectiveness of selection. In this study the potential effectiveness of selection in parents and their F2 and F3 pro…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Haq Nawaz Malik, Iffat Ara, Muhammad Naeem, Mozammil Hussain, M. Hanif Munawwar, M. Yousaf
Eighteen hybrids and 13 open pollinated varieties of maize were evaluated at the National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad during kharif 2007. Significant differences were observed for days to 50% tasseling and silking, plant height, ear height, n…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Mohammad Siddique Munawar, Shazia Raja, Elizabeth Stephen Waghchoure, Muhammad Barkat
American Foulbrood (AFB), caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae is a serious disease of honey bees worldwide that inflicts considerable economic losses to beekeepers. All work was undertaken in a commercial apiary that showed visual signs of AFB i…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Aneela Afzal, Tanvir Ali, Munir Ahmad, Humera Amin, Samina Saki
The study was designed to identify rural women’s participation in different agricultural activities especially crop related involvement in the district Okara, Punjab, Pakistan. A multistage random sampling technique was used to collect the data fro…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Hassnain Shah, Hina Riaz, Nadeem Akmal, Muhammad Sharif, Abdul Majid
Livestock sector plays an important role in the economy of Pakistan with a share in national and agricultural GDP estimated to be 11.3% and 51.8% respectively. Pakistan accounts for 143 million animal heads in 2006. However, livestock population and fodd…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Babar Hussain, Muhammad Ashfaq, Mazher Abbas, Khalid Mahmood, M. Ather Mahmood
Regional market integration in many agricultural commodities has been extensively studied for the insight, it provides in to the functioning of such markets; such studies provide valuable information about the dynamics of market adjustment, and whether t…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Sikander Khan Tanveer, Shaheena Yasmin, Imtiaz Hussain, M.Yaqub Mujahid, Muhammad Munir, Muhammad Asif
The study was conducted at the National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad to assess the effects of different combinations of fertilizer nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) with or without farm yard manure (FYM) on yield, yield components and as well a…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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R. Hussain, A. N. Naqvi
Gojali goat breed is found in Tehsil Gojal, subdivision Hunza, of Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. Generally very small breed with small legs, large belly and most of the specimen have brown strip from temple to nostrils on both sides. It is a pashmina bearing bree…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Zafar Khokhar, Imtiaz Hussain, Badruddin Khokhar, Muhammad Sohail
Due to reduction in tillering period and increased risk of hot weather during grain filling, late planting results in linear reduction in wheat grain yield. A study was undertaken to determine the effects of planting dates on growth and yield of differen…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Rahila Nazli, Tehmina Sohail, Bushra Nawab, Zahra Yaqeen
Quart for the new antimicrobial agent is still there and the present work is an attempt in this regard, Ethanolic extract of Gliricidia sepium in different concentration was used to investigate its antimicrobial activity against gram +ve and gram-ve bact…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Badaruddin Khokhar, Imtiaz Hussain, Zafar Khokhar
Irrigation at critical growth stages could improve wheat yield significantly. A study was conducted during 2000–2002 to determine effect of different irrigation levels on growth and yield of different wheat genotypes in the province of Sindh. The t…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Rahmat Ullah Khan, Abdur Rashid, Mohammad Sohail Khan, Erdogan Ozturk
The high cost of inorganic fertilizer, use of natural fertilizer resources for increasing crop production on sustainable basis has become imperative. Two field experiments were conducted to study the potential of humic acid (HA) as a low-cost natural fer…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Mazher Abbas, Muhammad Waqas Akram, Ikram Saeed, Arshed Bashir
The study was conducted to assess the economics of non-conventional oilseed crops in the Punjab. Therefore 60 respondents were taken from Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh and Chiniot districts of Central Punjab. Percent area allocated to canola crop was compar…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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S. Shahid Shaukat, Mian Sayed, Aly Khan, M. Azhar Khan, Babar Qazi
The impact of different treatments on population of three nematode species associated with guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) and the yield of guar were investigated. The chemical nematicides and plant extracts significantly reduced the population densities…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Aly Khan, S. Shahid Shaukat
A survey of phytonematodes associated with pomegranate was conducted encompassing 12 localities of Balochistan Province. Twelve genera were recorded from the rhizosphere of pomegranate. The most dominant species was Meloidogyne incognita. Species diversi…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Nadeem Akmal, Hassnain Shah, Muhammad Azam Niazi, Waqar Akhtar
The present paper is based on the assessment of goat breed improvement intervention through supply of 65 Beetal bucks in rainfed Pothwar. To judge short term impact and assessment, a survey was carried out of both buck holder and non-holder beneficiaries…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Muhammad Azam Niazi, Hassnain Shah, Waqar Akhtar, Nadeem Akmal
Changes in the terms of trade have consequences of great significance for the overall economic performance of a country. In this paper the terms of trade (1991-2003) for Pakistan’s crop sector have been worked out to reveal how the sector has…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Sumia Bint Zaman, Sidra Majeed, Shahid Ahmad
Globally resources of petro-fuels are diminishing at a rapid rate. Efforts are underway to develop sources of bio-fuels. Out of the known sources of bio-fuels, Jatropha is one of the most promising option. The purpose of this study was to evaluate primar…
17 Mar 2018 - Articles
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Oguz Bilgin, Kayihan Z. Korkut, Alpay Balkan, Ismet Baser
The present study was conducted to evaluate magnitude of heterotic effects in F1 hybrids of seven durum wheat cultivars, and to investigate the performance and relationship of F1 hybrids and parents for the spike characters and to select suitable parents…
17 Mar 2018