Agriculture

A new world record is set by volunteers in Sindh by planting 541,176 trees in a single day, according to the Guinness World Records. The record-breaking tree-planting marathon was witnessed …

Swiss dairy giant Nestle has made Pakistan the home of world’s largest ever milk production plant. The 2 million-litre-a-day Punjab-based milk processing facility will rise to over three million …

Biotechnology offers tremendous benefits to the agriculture in Pakistan. Agriculture biotechnology is helping today to provide people with more and better crops, food and holds even greater promise for the …

The quality of Pakistani silver fibre is the best in the world. This was stated by Gen Herwig M Strolz, the director-general of the International Trade Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), Switzerland. …

Longan looks like lychee, is much sweeter and yields twice as much as the best lychee tree. Its fruit is smaller than lychee, and has brown smooth skin and therefore …

The Indus Valley is arguably the world’s foremost area for growing dates. Cultivation from this region is traced as far back as the 6th century B.C. Indus Valley date …

Pakistani rice is expected to enter into Chinese market by June 2005 as the two countries signed a protocol and exporters see the Asian country as largest single buyer of …

The Agro Tractors (Pvt) Ltd (ATL) has signed an agreement with John Deere, the US-based world leader in agriculture industry, for assembling and progressive manufacturing of tractors in Pakistan. ‘The …

Various nurseries from the city and from Lahore have amassed a great. Floriculture treasure, an unprecedented precedent of an overall improvement in cultivars, hybridisation, selection of graded seeds and floriculture …

Expectations of a record cotton crop in Pakistan have lifted prospects for the country’s textile sector, just as it faces the challenge of the global quota-free trade regime that came …