Untreated sewage effluent containing heavy metals are applied to raise crops, mostly vegetables. Thus these metals enter human food chain and could cause health hazards. Therefore, a study was conduct ... Read More
Gradient creation of external osmotic potential with NaCI reveals physiological traits of a plant species. Brassica campestris (cv. BSA) and B. juncea (cv. BARD-1) were grown for six weeks in nutrien ... Read More
Sodium (Na) can substitute different osmoregulatory functions of potassium (K) in several crop species. Inter and intra-specific variations in crop species have been reported for (K) uptake and use e ... Read More
Bacteria carrying 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase activity lower stress induced ethylene levels and may be effective to improve plant growth under salt stress conditions. Twenty ... Read More
The efficacy of symbiotic association between three Rhizobium strains i.e. B (TAL-1371, C (Tal-1000) and 0 (NC92) and two groundnut genotypes viz. V1 (ICG-4993) and V2 (ICG-732) was studied in a field ... Read More
A two years study pertaining to raising mixed forage of maize + legume was conducted at agronomic research area of the department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during 2003 and 200 ... Read More
Fourteen cytoplasmic male sterile lines and 6 testers were crossed in a line x tester fashion to develop 84 sunflower hybrids during Spring, 2000 at Oilseeds Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad, Paki ... Read More
An experiment comprising 104 sunflower genotypes was conducted at Oilseeds Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad, Pakistan to study genetic correlation coefficients, direct and indirect effects of diff ... Read More
The study was conducted to examine the Spatial and seasonal variation in the species composition of herbaceous vegetation indigenous to Soone valley in the Salt range of Pakistan as a baseline for fur ... Read More
Wheat quality is expressed by physico-chemical and rheological parameters that is influenced by wheat characteristics and milling process. Several methods based on different techniques are being used ... Read More
The objective of this research studies was to test the effect of different anti-microbial agents on decay and rotting of water stored bananas. Two experiments were conducted in this regards. First exp ... Read More
Soil and water were explored to obtain bacterial isolates for the production of amino acids in fermentation medium containing molasses, supplemented with some salts in order to optimize the growth con ... Read More
Chapattis prepared with whole wheat flour and with 10 and 20% substitution with cotton seed, mustard and sunflower seed flours were evaluated for chemical & nutritional characteristics and protein qua ... Read More
An experiment was conducted to determine the best level of urease sources for complete hydrolysis of urea and nutritive value of urea treated bagasse. Sugarcane bagasse was treated with urea at 2.5% ( ... Read More
Citrus pulp was ensiled with the mixture of poultry litter and corn forage (60:40) in the ratio 0: 100, 10:90, 20:80, 30:70 and 40:60 (wet basis), respectively. Samples of pre-ensiled mixtures showed ... Read More
The rivers that are potential breeding grounds of Cirrhina mrigala are subject to heavy metals pollution through industrial effluents and domestic sewage. In present investigation, laboratory experime ... Read More
Field tests were conducted to compare continuous and surge irrigations in the plots of similar dimensions for assessing their potential in improving irrigation system performance and wheat production ... Read More
This study assessed the comparative advantage of cotton production in Pakistan and determined that how far the current set of policies is consistent with the comparative advantage. The Domestic Resou ... Read More
The study attempted to investigate the role of credit in cotton production by developing a relationship between credit and technical efficiency. The study also explores the sources of technical ineff ... Read More
In the present study, determinants of radish yield in two districts of Punjab, Pakistan were ascertained using Cobb Douglas type production function. Data were gathered from Sheikhupura and Sahiwal a ... Read More
The present study was designed to evaluate the impact of micro-credit of PRSP on productivity of wheat and sugarcane in Faisalabad. For the purpose of the study, two field units namely Satiana and Sal ... Read More
Regional market integration in many agricultural commodities has been extensively studied for the insight it provides into the functioning of such markets; such studies provide valuable information ab ... Read More
This study focused on how the challenge of personality development is being comprehended in different segments of the society. Special attention was given to the issue of identification of determinant ... Read More
Afghanistan ranks as one of the poorest countries in the world. A grim average of 53 percent of rural population entrapped in poverty confronts even more severe deprivations. The extent and severity o ... Read More
Soil salinity is very huge problem of the world. Sultanate of Oman being a part of arid regions is also very badly hit by this problem. The survey data indicated that 1.56 m ha were affected from sali ... Read More
A saline shallow water table can contribute significantly to salinity/sodicity development in the root zone. Field investigation was carried out in saline-sodic soil (EC = 9.7 dS m', SAR = 32.4 (mmol ... Read More
A pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of mulch and irrigation on nutrient uptake of forage maize using clay and loam soils during Autumn 2002. Two mulch levels, i.e. 0 (control) and 6. ... Read More
The study was conducted to optimize fertilizer dose in Vetch (Vicia sativa) for higher fodder yield and grain yield under rainfed conditions at National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad during ... Read More
An experiment to study the effect of different irrigation levels on the yield and radiation use efficiency of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) under two sowing methods was conducted at the agronomic reaea ... Read More
The competitive response of associated forage crops grown in different forage sorghum-based legume intercropping systems in different geometrical arrangements was executed at University of Agricultur ... Read More
All possible cross combinations involving five genotypes of wheat were evaluated for genetic variability and inheritance for number of productive tillers/plant, spike length, number of spikelets/spike ... Read More
Many inbred lines of maize are unable to synthesize glycinebetaine (GB). The present study was conducted to assess the influence of exogenously applied GB on growth and photosynthetic attributes of ma ... Read More
Microbudding technique was explored for early age propagation in Sweet lime, Grapefruit cv. Sham bar and Mandarin cv. Feutrell's early under controlled conditions. The technique showed a successful u ... Read More
A promising red potato variety Symphonia was taken to explore for various nitrogen application techniques like broadcast (BC), side dressing (SO) and foliar application. Optimal recommended dose of n ... Read More
TMV was isolated from plant samples collected from tobacco fields and identified and characterized on the basic of biological, serological and physical properties. The virus isolate infected 23 plant ... Read More
In order to evaluate the toxic effects of essential oil from rhizomes of Acarus calamus L., different doses (30, 50 and 70 IJL) were tested against grubs of Trogaderma granarium (Everts). Percent mort ... Read More
The experiment was conducted by using four predator-prey (Channa marulius : Oreochromis mossambicus) stocking ratios of 1:10, 1:20, 1:30 and 1:40 in eight earthen ponds. Both the predator and prey spe ... Read More
The growth seasonality of the bandicoot rats (Bandicota bengalensis) was investigated in irrigated crops in district Faisalabad, for one year at regular intervals. A seasonal pattern of body growth in ... Read More
Pakistan confronts a complex dilemma of the human condition. The major issues are poverty and income disparity particularly among the rural masses. The impact of the crisis of poverty is particularly ... Read More
Apple is the fourth important fruit of Pakistan and is ranked 16th in the world for its production. Its per hectare yield in Pakistan is very low due to non-adoption of recommended horticultural prac ... Read More
In Pakistan there is hardly any field of endeavor in which women are not playing their significant part. In our society, working women has to perform multiple roles. They are permanent members of the ... Read More
A comparison of two ghee firms Kashmir and Kisan in Pakistan was undertaken to seek opinion of customers about the taste, availability, affordability of their products. The survey revealed that the co ... Read More
This paper narrates the poverty correlates among small farmers in the Central Punjab. It is based on the survey conducted in the three districts of Central Punjab for the year 2004-05 aby interviewing ... Read More
Data on 9080 records of Thalli sheep maintained at Livestock Experiment Station, Rakh Ghulaman Distt. Bhakkar during the period of 1975-2004 were utilized in the present study. Average values for 180 ... Read More
This paper describes the effects of three levels of spraying fluid pressure, three levels of sprayer velocities, and three levels of vertical heights, on spray uniformity distribution on the undersurf ... Read More
