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Molecular Evaluation of Vp1 Coding Region of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Circulating in Pakistan

Waqas Ali, Mudasser Habib

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely contagious viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals. In Pakistan, this disease causes huge losses to economy. However, the reports on its selection and evolutionary pathways are rare. In present study, 336 strains of…

Inheritance Studies of Yield and Yield Related Traits in Bread Wheat Genotypes

Sher Nawab Khan, Ghulam Hassan

Plants contribute almost 93% of food and among the crops wheat has the largest contribution of about 80% to the total global cereal production. Eight wheat cultivars including a land race were crossed in 8×8 full diallel fashion during 2014-15 wheat grow…

New Diallel Cross Designs Through Resolvable Balanced Incomplete Block Designs for Field Experiments

Ijaz Iqbal, Maqsooda Parveen, Zafar Mahmood

Designing of experiment has a key role in laying out the experiment in agriculture sciences. In this paper an investigation is made of a special kind of incomplete block design known as the resolvable balanced incomplete block design. An algorithm is presented…

Climate Change Competencies Assessment of Field Assistants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Asif Nawaz, Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

The present research study was conducted in order to assess possessed and required level of climate change competencies, their training needs and influence of demographic characteristics on the climate change competencies of Field Assistants of the Agriculture…

Line × Tester Analysis of Early Generation Inbred Lines for some Agronomic Traits in Maize

Monsif Ur Rehman, Hidayat-ur-Rahman, Muhammad Iqbal, Iftikhar Hussain Khalil, Zahir Shah

Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most versatile crop among cereals that grows well in a wide range of environments. Promising maize populations (and their hybrids) could be used as a source for inbred line development as well as cost-effective alternatives to single…

Women’s Participation and Constraints in Livestock Management: A Case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Pakistan

Shaista Naz, Noor Paio Khan, Naveed Afsar, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah

Women are the prime contributors of agriculture sector including livestock across the developing world including Pakistan. However, their extent of participation (time allocation) and constraints in livestock management have not been properly explored yet. To…

Potassium Application on Chickpea Crop under Irrigated Area

Ambrin Rajput

Chickpea is one of the largest and highly cultivable pulse crops which plays a major part in fulfilling the nutritional requirements of human. Limited research has been done on chickpea concern with potassium (K) fertilizer application. A field study was carri…

Whey Neutralization with Different Concentration of Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Bicarbonate

Ali Muhammad, Yasser Durrani, Majid Suhail Hashmi, Ihsan Mabood Qazi, Muhammad Ayub, Saifullah

Whey proteins have many nutritional and beneficial therapeutic properties, which are indispensable for the functional and nutritional properties of foods. The aim of the study was to neutralize whey by addition of NaOH (0.1 and 0.01N) and NaHCO3 (0.1 and 0.01N…

Sarsabz: A New High Yielding, Well Adapted Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Variety

Saeed Ahmad Shah Chishti, Mudassar Iqbal, Nusrat Parveen, Kashif Nadeem, Muhammad Iqbal, Umbreen Shahzad et al.

Sarsabz, a high yielding, well adapted and bold-seeded pea variety was evolved by hybridizing two varieties Meteor and Lampo at Vegetable Research Institute, Faisalabad Pakistan. The variety was tested in replicated varietal/ station yield trials and multi-loc…

Compatibility of Chemical and Biological Control for the Management of Maize Stem Borer, Chilo Partellus, (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera; Pyralidae)

Inzimamul Haq, Shahid Sattar, Bashir Ahmed, Qamar Zeb, Amjad Usman

With a view to use Trichogramma chilonis as parasitoid in the integrated pest management of Chilo partellus in maize field, basic studies on the efficacy of some insecticides against Chilo partellus in Jalal variety of maize and selectivity for the bio-control…

Revising Fertilizer Subsidy and Taxes Policy for Reducing Cost of Production of Major Crops in Pakistan

Abid Hussain, Muhammad Azeem Khan, Muhammad Anjum Ali Buttar, Umar Farooq, Muhmmad Islam, Zahid Ullah Khan

Reduction in cost of production to make agriculture profitable is a major challenge and all out efforts have been made by successive government in Pakistan to pass benefits to the farmers by reducing input prices through reduction in GST, providing cash subsid…

Socio-Economic Impacts of Agro-Forestry on Livelihoods of Rural Households in Southern Region of the Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Luqman, Raheel Saqib, Mujahid Karim, Khalid Nawab, Abdur Rehman, Muhammad Yaseen

Agro-forestry is practiced in many of the developing countries including Pakistan. In order to find out its socio-economic impacts on the livelihoods of rural household in the Southern Punjab, the present study was carried out in 2016 at University College of…

Perceptions Vulnerability Index: A Measure of Land Degradation Process in Northern Irrigated Plains of Pakistan

Muhammad Israr, Saeed Ullah, Shakeel Ahmad, Asif Yaseen, Urooba Pervaiz, Nafees Ahmad

Land Degradation (LD) is the most significant environmental issue in the present world and posing a challenge to the goals of future sustainability. The aims of this study was to measure the agriculture land degradation process in northern irrigated plains of…

Pre-sowing Treatment of Alfalfa Seeds with Bio-Extracts for Early Spring Growth Performance

Bushra Qadir, Muhammad Asim, Mohammad Akmal

Pakistan faces an acute deficiency of forages for livestock both in terms of dry matter (DM) and total digestible nutrient (TDN). Green forage availability fluctuates in months of the year due to prevailing climate. Alfalfa, with higher potential, can be adjus…

Alfalfa Biomass Production in Establishment Year under Different Phosphorus and Potassium Rates

Muhammad Sohaib, Rabia Gohar, Muhammad Akmal

Genetic Variability, Heritability and Genetic Advance for Morphological Traits in F5:6 Rice Lines

Arshad Iqbal, Syed Mehar Ali Shah, Hidayat ur Rahman, Faiza Aman, Aziz-ur-Rahman

This study was conducted to investigate variability, heritability and genetic advance among F5:6 lines of rice for various morphological traits. Thirty-eight lines derived from F5 rice cross combinations along with their 8 parents were planted in a randomized…

In vitro and In vivo Antifungal Activity of Selected Fungal Species against the Fusarium Wilt of Solanum lycopersicum

Zulqarnain, Zafar Iqbal

Fusarium wilt of tomato is a devastating fungal disease with several infectious strategies leading to the complete death of plant. None of the strategies in controlling the wilt have shown fruitful results. Dual culture assay was employed is this study to iden…

An Economic Analysis of High Efficiency Irrigation Systems in Punjab, Pakistan

Amar Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Abdul Hassan Qureshi, Iqbal Javed, Raheel Saqib, Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal

The growing demand for water resources highlights the need for improved management of this diminishing resource to ensure high water productivity. In order to cope with this situation, it is imperative to make use of available water resources more efficiently…

Market Marginal Analysis of the Peas Production in Hazara Division Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Sajad Ali, Syed Asghar Ali Shah, Jaffar Ali, Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal, Arshadullah Jadoon, Farmanullah

The present study was conducted to examine the Peas production as well as their related promoting rehearses, categorize the scenario of socio-economic, methodical and marketing restraints faced by the farmers in augmenting and stimulating export of the country…

Novel Gene Pyramiding to Combat Rusts in Global Wheat Varieties against Prevalent Virulence: A Review

Yasir Ali, Muhammad Aslam Khan, Muhammad Atiq, Muhammad Hussain

Epidemics caused by leaf, stripe and stem rust have significant threat to agro-ecosystems and worldwide food security. Semi-dwarf wheat varieties with major gene resistance could not continue for longer period due to emergence of new rust races. However, genot…