The genetics of four physiological traits (net photosynthesis, water-use-efficiency, relative water content and excised leaf water loss) and their correlation with agronomic traits in spring wheat was ... Read More
Agricultural development is a fact of life which may mainly be explained as a function of application of the latest technology by farmers in their fields. This in turn depends upon their knowledge abo ... Read More
Extension is primarily a communication intervention in which extension field staff (EFS) is expected to use a wide variety of communication channels to communicate extension messages effectively to fa ... Read More
n a field study, gypsum, in addition to HCI and H~SO~, equivalent to 100% gypsum requirement, was used to reclaim a dense saline sodic clay loam soil during rice cultivation. Soil samples collected at ... Read More
The study was conducted to measure the effect of three depths of irrigation Le. 50, 75 and 100 mm with three levels of fertilizer application @ 89 N, 84 P and 0 K; 128 N, 111 P and 25 K; 158 N, 111 P ... Read More
A field experiment was conducted to determine unsaturated hydraulic conductivity K(e) and water retention h(e) curves of an important soil from Punjab, Pakistan. The matric potential (h) and volumetri ... Read More
The interactive effect of salinity and hypoxia was studied on the distribution of ions in leaves of four wheat genotypes grown with (75, 150 mol m') and without NaCl salinity under aerated and hypoxic ... Read More
This paper represents an attempt at evaluating some soil amendment practices by using both the experimental and farm level primary data. Experimental data generated over the period 1980-81 to 1984-85 ... Read More
This paper evaluates the economic benefits of the Water Management Research Project of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad run over an area of ten thousand hectares in ten villages of Shahkot ar ... Read More
Dowry has become an essential part of marriage practices in Pakistan. With the passage of time, it has become a curse, particularly for the low socio-economic part of the society. This situation neces ... Read More
Data on 437 lactation records of Nili-Ravi buffalo maintained from 1978-93 at Livestock Experiment Station, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad were used to study the influence of various facrtors o ... Read More
GeneralizedLogistic distribution flood frequency curves for the river Indus at Jinnah (Kalabagh) Barrage have been developed using 6 I years (1924-1985) annual maximum flood series. The Generalized Lo ... Read More
Data were collected from the LPRI. Bahadurnagar, LES, Jahangirabad and Rakh Ghulama for the period from July, 1981 to June, 1990 to determine important causes of mortality in cattle calves. Overall mo ... Read More
Interpretation of soil physical parameters based on few measurements is sometimes difficult because of the spatial variability of the soil. Spatial variability in a salinesodic soil was evaluated by m ... Read More
Thirteen open pollinated tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) cultivars (Pello, Riogrande, Tz-lmproved, Rossol, Pakit, ACE 55 VF, Money Maker, Nagina, 88572*, Marmandi, DC 134, Ebein and Rohaba) and ... Read More
Laboratory and field calibrations of a neutron moisture meter were carried out separately for a sandy loam soil in a special drum and in the field respectively. The drum calibration was made by monito ... Read More
Mothbean flour at levels of 10, 15, 20 and 25% was used in whole wheat flour for the production of biscuits to improve the quantity and quality of protein, mineral content and fiber. The biscuits were ... Read More
A field study was carried out in a saline-sodic non gypsiferous loam soil in the Mona Project area with watertable ranging between 8-188 cm. The ground water EC and SAR ranged from 1.30-3.15 dS m'l an ... Read More
Twenty five Teddy goats were used to see the effect of Atriplcx feeding on crude fibre utilization and blood biochemistry for a period of 90 days. The crude fibre digestibility coefficients in goats k ... Read More
In the six week trial, 150 day-old broiler ehicks were fed on five experimental rations. The ration were formulated in such a way that fish meal was gradually replaced with rice protein meal. Average ... Read More
A balance trial was conducted on nine buffalo heifers to determine the effect of urea and urea phosphate on the utilization of some macro and micro mineral elements. The rations contained no urea (A), ... Read More
A study was conducted at Poultry Research Center, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad to investigate the comparative efficiency of commercially available water additive four antistressors (Naromixfu ... Read More
An experiment was conducted with 240 day old India River broiler chicks to examine the efficiency of various coccidiostat namely Elancoban. Robistat and coxistac. The use of coccidiostat improved weig ... Read More
Effect of a new planting technique i.e. planting sugarcanc 90 cm apart double row strips, on cane yield, intercropping and sowing of irrigation water was studied. Experiment was conducted at Shahkot a ... Read More
A laboratory study was carried out in hydroponic culture to determine the effect of different Ca:Mg ratios of saline medium on the yield and ionic composition of rice. Sodium chloride along with varyi ... Read More
Agricultural extension is essentially an educational service which has been designed primarily to improve the living standard of rural people through increased agricultural production and improved far ... Read More
Four varieties of potato, i.c., Desire, Lal-e-Faisal, Diament and Cardinal were used. After washing and hand peeling, the potatoes of each variety were divided into two lots. Proximate analysis was ca ... Read More
A 4 x 4 diallelanalysisof cotton cultivarsunder Faisalabadagroclimaticconditionrevealedadditive type of gene action controllingthe phenotypic manifestationof seed index, lint index and fibre fineness. ... Read More
This study was conducted to compare the effect of different field slopes (0.0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 percents) on nitrate-nitrogen (NOrN) distribution in surface irrigated fields. To achieve this, advance ... Read More
Lentil seeds inoculated with Rhizobium and those without inoculation were sown in pots and 15 days after germination, different concentrations of L-tryptophan (L-TRP) were applied to the inoculated pl ... Read More
The effect of soil texture, CaC03, and temperature was studied on K fixation in the Kotli, the Pindorian and the Wazirabad soil series. These series were fine, medium and coarse textured, respectively ... Read More
Soluble salts in soils of Pakistan adversely affect the yield of wheat crop. The nutritional deficiency becomes additive factor. A pot study was therefore conducted to evaluate the ameliorative role o ... Read More
Six maize inbred were crossed in complete diallel fashion to evaluate their general and specific combining ability for yield and its components. Variance components due to specific combining ability ( ... Read More
Graphic and component analysis of five different genotypes of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L) namely LU-26, Pak.81, Pb. 85, S-131 and S-1080, indicated the presence of additive genetic variance with ... Read More
Amongst the various species In Agroforestry programme, Eucalyptus has established it self as a tree most suitable for Agroforestry, as it can grow on a variety of soils under various climatic conditio ... Read More
