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ArticlesThirty-fifth Annual Passing-Out Ceremony of the Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar (October 11, 1983) (Home & Foreign News)
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Thirty-fifth Annual Passing-Out Ceremony of the Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar (October 11, 1983) (Home & Foreign News)
25 May 2024- Articles
Artificial regeneration of Chir pine planting vs sowing
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh, Fazle Subhan
Intro: Since long Forest Departments in the country have been doing artificial regeneration in Chir forests by sowing the seed in pits. Due to increasing biotic pressures it became rather difficult to get satisfactory results from this method. Planting of Chir…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Introduction of Pimpinella anisum (aniseed) to judge its performance and effect of various row to row spacing on the growth and seed yield at Peshawar
Anwar Ahmad Khan, Shakeel Haider Zaidi
Intro: Aniseed is one of the oldest spice which has been cultivated as a specialised crop over vast areas in Egypt, Asia minor, India and Southern Europe for commercial utility of its seed and essential oil which find a variety of uses in various industries. T…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Effect of mulches on the establishment on tree species in arid lands
M.I. Sheikh, Bashir Hussain Shah, Abdul Aleem
To investigate the effect of different mulches on the survival and growth of tree species and experiment was laid put at Rakh Dagar Kotli in Thal desert. Acacia modesta and A. torrilis were planted with plastic apron, stone pitching, and grass mulch and withou…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Seasonal veriation of Diosgenin in Dioscorea deltoidea Wall
Fazli Wahid Khan, Pazir Gul
Diosgenin was isolated from the yam samples of Dioscorea deltoidea collected during May-November; and the data accumulated from the analysis at random collections from various sites carried out for three years in different localities. October collection gave 5…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Control of Oleo-resin deposition in Deodar wood containers
Mohammad Ayaz
Intro: Deodar (Cedrus deodara) is one of the most important softwood species of Pakistan. It is extensively used on account of its properties e.g., lighter weight, straight grain, good seasoning and working characteristics and high durability. One of its impor…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Phytosociological studies of Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi
Anjum Amin, Raja Mohammad Ashfaque
Phytosociological studies of the Ayub National Park Rawalpindi, were carried out during summer of 1977. Vegetation was sampled at 25 different locations for delimiting densities, dominance and frequencies. Five plant communities i.e., Depression community (ind…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Survey of Himalayan dwarf mistletoe in the upper Kagan Forests
Zakaullah, Khial Badshah
A survey of the Upper Kagan forests revealed the occurrence of Himalayan dwarf mistletoe in blue pine growing in the temperate forests of Burawai, Batakundi and Naran. The infested areas lie all along the left bank of Kunhar river from Jaba to Naran; the road…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Bioeconomics of olive psyllid Euphyllura olivina Costa
Wali-ur-Rehman, M. Ismail Chaudhry
Euphyllura olivine Costa, a serious pest of Olea europea, has 8 overlapping generations in a year. Nymphs and adults of the last generation over-winter during December - January. Activity returns at the beginning of February and egg-laying of the 1st generatio…
25 May 2024 - Articles
A not on the comparative efficiency of power chain saw and hand tools for felling and conversion in irrigated plantations
Mohammad Ayaz, K. M. Siddiqui
Tree felling and conversion in Pakistan is done by hand tools; axes and saws. These, besides being primitive are inefficient, thus causing low labour productivity, and delays in exploitation and subsequent regeneration operations in the forests. Introduction o…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Interim results on the performance of new poplar clones
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
Intro: In 1978 some new poplar clones were received from Texas USA fortrial in the climatic conditions obtaining in Pakistan. The cuttings were planted in the nursery and after one year it was decided to lay out a comparative study in the Research Garden of Pa…
25 May 2024 - Articles
A review of the diseases of turmeric
Zakaullah, Shahida Perveen
A review of the diseases of turmeric: Turmeric (Curcuma longa), an important rhizomatous herb, is chiefly grown for spices in. the Indo-Malaysian region. In Pakistan, the crop covers an area of about 1938 ha (Weather and Crop Report, 1977). This is expected to…
25 May 2024 - Articles
The Sports goods industry in Sialkot
Mohammad Amjad, Iqbal Mohammad
The sports goods manufacturing industry of Sialkot comprises 290 units employing 2,650 workers. 42 work on factory scale and the rest as small units. Very little mechanical equipment is employed. Finishing operations are generally carried out manually. Annual…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Observations on Missa Comparative Watershed study
Mohammad Hanif
To study the effectiveness of erosion control practices in the catchment of Kanshi river, two watersheds, Missa Experimental and Missa Control, 81 hectares each, and more or less identical in morphometric characteristics, were selected about 55 kilometers SE o…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Application of computer in Forestry
Raja Walayat Hussain
In forest research computer is mainly used in the analysis of experimental and survey data, in studying the complex relationships between plants and their environment and for the simulation of biological and economic situations. In forest management it finds i…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Studies on some range grasses of Pakistan
Moinuddin Ahmad, Asrar Hussain, Tariq Hussain
Three species of genus Cymbopogon, viz C. jwarancusa (Jones) Schult.,C. parkeri Stapf and C. olivieri (bioss. ) Bor were vegetatively propagated in the grass nursery of Botany Department, University of Karachi. Various stage of their life cycle were studied un…
25 May 2024 - Articles
The role of social sciences in the man and the Biosphere (Note)
Abdul Aleem
Note: UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MAB) programme is a programme of research directed towards developing the basis within the natural and social sciences for the rational use and conservation of the resources of the biosphere, and for the improvement of the glo…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Bee Flora of the N.W.F.P.
Mohammad Shahid, Abdul Qayyum
In the N.W.F.P. (Pakistan), a detailed survey was carried out to explore different nectar and pollen yielding plants for honey-bees. A detailed list of 122 such plants both wild and cultivated, their scientific names, time of blossom and their distribution in…
25 May 2024 - Articles
History of Forest Management in Pakistan-III, Irrigated plantation and Riverain Forest
Ghaus Mohammad Khattak
Traditionally the irrigated plantations of the Punjab have been managed under the two storeyed high forest system with an understorey of shisham and mulberry and an overstorey of shisham standards. The lower storey has been managed on a rotation of 16 to 22 ye…
25 May 2024 - Articles
Heredity deals the cards but environment plays the hands - A method of assessing forest site productivity
M. B. Shrivastava, B. Ulrich
This paper examines critically the problems of Forest Sites Evaluation and the methods used to solve them so far. The chief components of Eco-Systems determining the growth potential of forest lands have been discussed. The dependent variable of site quality e…
25 May 2024