New Delhi :  Grape Exporters Association of India has urged its Commerce Ministry to add grapes to current list of Indian exports that go to Pakistan. President of association, Jagannath Khapare said 51 items, including tomatoes and other fresh [...]

Karachi,  The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) to promote the biological agriculture fertilizer technology to maintain good soil structure and sustainable farms. President UNISAME Zulfikar [...]

Karachi :  US Department of Agriculture USDA Rice Outlook Global 2011/12 slightly raises rice production, consumption and ending stocks. Increase in global rice production of 600,000 tons to record 461.4 million tons is due primarily to larger [...]

Karachi :  The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) to upgrade the salt industry which is backward and processing salt in an orthodox manner. Advanced technology [...]

Ludhiana,  Visiting United Nations Development Program UNDP’s bio-saline project of Pakistan delegation Wednesday visited India Punjab Agricultural University here. The delegation has members from soil science, sociology, economics, banking, [...]

Faisalabad :  Export oriented textile sector has been totally closed as gas pressure has reduced to zero percent immediately after serving notices for indefinite closure of gas to the industrial sector. Addressing an emergent press conference [...]

Karachi,  World cotton consumption is now expected to decrease 2.5% from last season as global economy remains sluggish, latest United States Department of Agriculture projections for 2011-12 indicate. At 111.3 million bales, 2011/12 global [...]

Islamabad, Federal government Wednesday decided that PASSCO will procure wheat at rate of Rs 1050 per 40 kilogram in next season. The decision was taken in meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. It was told government will import [...]

ISLAMABAD,  The United States Government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping thousands of farmers replace their outdated irrigation pumps with more efficient models in an effort to reduce energy use and [...]

Karachi : Sindh government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Orient Group of Energy, a Chinese company to o overcome energy crisis in Pakistan. The MoU was signed in Beijing on Wednesday in the presence of Speaker Sindh assembly [...]