Climate change has become a great challenge for the agrarian economy of Pakistan. A serious threat is to the crop sector which is vulnerable to change in temperature and rainfall. This study traced t ... Read More
The experiment was conducted to examine the effect of mixed feeding schedule with varying dietary protein levels on the growth performance of fishes in composite culture, using two earthen ponds. Bot ... Read More
This research paper deals with the design development and testing of a forced convection solar dryer, for drying and converting to flour of high moisture content vegetables like potatoes. The angle o ... Read More
Twenty one date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Pakistani varieties were investigated for their physico-chemical characteristics. All observations were made at tamr stage (maturity) of fruit. Significa ... Read More
Citrus is an important fruit crop in Pakistan that requires proper crop nutrition and disease management strategies as it is a tree crop and withstands harsh seasonal conditions for decades. Huanglon ... Read More
Fig tree (Ficus carica L.) is well adapted to the conditions of Tunisia. Many cultivars are of Smyrna type and caprification is a common practice in all regions. However, this technique remains not w ... Read More
The fungus, Botryodiplodia theobromae is one of the causal agents of quick decline which was artificially inoculated to mango varieties to see quick decline symptoms. The most famous varieties, i.e. ... Read More
Exotic cultivars of hybrid roses respond uncertainly to new habitat. It is necessary to explore the potential of the introduced cultivars to judge the suitability in a new habitat. In the present stu ... Read More
A lysimeter experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of different Ca2+ concentrations in canal water for the reclamation of saline-sodic soils with a range of textures. Calcium Sulphate ... Read More
Currently, availability of good-quality water is falling short of the crop requirement, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions of Pakistan. A field experiment was conducted on dense saline-sodic ... Read More
The promising strain RBN-03052 is an outcome of hybridization (KS-75 x Rainbow) and selected through pedigree method of selection since 1998-99. Homozygous progenies of pedigree number F6-6052 were b ... Read More
Exotic quinoa genotypes were evaluated for seedling vigor, viability, heritability, and genotypic and phenotypic variations under lab. conditions. A total of 25 genotypes of quinoa underwent comparis ... Read More
The present investigations were planned to determine the best selection criteria for yield improvement in mustard (Brassica juncea). Ten genotypes of Brassica juncea were sown in a Randomized Complet ... Read More
In view of growing need and consciousness about the nutritional and functional properties of vegetable oils, physicochemical characterization of non-conventional oil seed crops is of much concern to c ... Read More
This study was conducted to assess the effects of phytase supplementation on minerals digestibility to Labeo rohita fingerlings that were fed corn gluten meal (30%) based diet. The experimental diet ... Read More
The apparent digestibility coefficients of dietary protein levels of reference diet and soybean meal based diets were estimated for Labeo rohita. Three test diets and three reference diets having 28, ... Read More
The present research was conducted on different life stages (90, 120, 150 and 180-day age) of Indian major carps to check the growth responses under sub-lethal chronic toxicity of iron. Fish of each ... Read More
Agricultural publications are considered effective tool to disseminate agricultural information among the farming community. In Pakistan, various public and private organizations used this tool in or ... Read More
In Pakistan, privatization of agricultural extension system was started in 1988 on the recommendation of National Commission on Agriculture established by the government to look into the causes of po ... Read More
The main objective of this study was to develop functional yoghurt by using different concentrations of goat and sheep milk. The functional yoghurt was prepared by blending sheep and goat milk at dif ... Read More
This study examines the food habits of the Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. Porcupine is an important vertebrate pest in Pakistan’s agriculture, but there is ... Read More
Nowadays, the main limiting natural resource is widely considered to be water. Therefore, research into crop management practices that enhance drought resistance and plant growth when water supply is ... Read More
Physiology and yield attributes of wheat variety Gomal-8 were evaluated using different levels of Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn and B alone and in different combinations. The results revealed that application of bo ... Read More
The efficacy of various pre and post-emergence herbicides viz. pyroxasulfone @ 0.15 kg a.i. ha-1, terbutryn + triasulfuron @ 0.18 kg a.i. ha-1 and flufenacet + pyroxasulfone @ 0.24 + 0.15 kg a.i. ha- ... Read More
For the perfume industry, Rosa damascena is the most important species used in the production of rose attar which is made by distilling volatile oils from the petals of flowers. It is also used widel ... Read More
Thirty two genotypes including eight commercial varieties of potato were evaluated for yield processing quality traits. Significant differences in all the quality parameters were observed among the g ... Read More
The Special Agricultural Safeguard (SAG) is a provision that may be invoked by a Member country of WTO for a product subject to tariffication. It is for the application of the special safeguard design ... Read More
Crop sector shows an increasing trend but the benefits of this growth have shifted towards households having large land holdings leading to poverty and inequality in the economy. There is a need to d ... Read More
Predator-prey relationship is of great importance in the agro-ecosystems. Insects being the largest group of arthropods have a major role in designing various management strategies against different c ... Read More
Weeds are considered a limiting factor of crop production. Simultaneously, these non-crop plants are a portion of the agricultural ecosystem and play an essential role as viable habitat for many organ ... Read More
A comprehensive study was carried out to find the effect of power (Batteries), swath width, discharge rate and wind speed on droplet size and density of locally available ULV sprayer with the objecti ... Read More
Rice bran, a by-product obtained during polishing of un-milled rice, contains a large quantity of essential nutrients such as minerals, vitamins, fiber, amino acids and antioxidants. Supplementation ... Read More
This study was carried out in order to know the biodiversity of staphylinid species due to their multi-dimensional behavior; i.e. predators, parasites, pollinators, decomposers and scavengers in the ... Read More
An experiment was carried out under laboratory conditions where seeds of six wheat varieties (Damani, Hashim-8, Gomal-8, DN-73, Zam-04 and Dera-98) were raised in Petri dishes and were either treated ... Read More
A field experiment was conducted at National Agriculture Research Center (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan to observe the emergence and grain yield of maize crop under different fertilizer applications viz ... Read More
Vegetative and reproductive growth pattern of mango tree cv. Langra and development of floral malformation were investigated under subtropical conditions. Vegetative flushes emerging during April wer ... Read More
Loquat is an important fruit of some parts of Pakistan including Hasan Abdal and Wah. In spite of its importance, no research work on the description of loquat genotypes of these areas was available. ... Read More
Worldwide demand of organic product is increasing; Pakistani farmer’s awareness is also increasing towards organic farming due to high cost of synthetic fertilizers and demand of organic food. This s ... Read More
A digital thermo-hygro controller was designed and fabricated using humidity (HIH-3610) and temperature (LM-35) sensors connected to a programmable microcontroller 16F876 of PIC family. This unit was ... Read More
Household management is considered as the productive role of women in addition to their reproductive role of child bearing and rearing. Much of the rural women work is considered unpaid, efforts are ... Read More
The paper examined the resource use efficiency of small Bt cotton farmers of Punjab province of Pakistan using the production function approach. Data for the study were obtained from 150 randomly sel ... Read More
Releases of Trichogramma chilonis (Ishii) (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), were made in farmer’s fields in Shorkot, District Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan on three sites covering eight locations for the b ... Read More
We examined the effect of physico-morphological characters on whitefly Bemisia tabaci population in transgenic cotton at University of Agriculture Faisalabad research area with available genotypes. P ... Read More
Tomato genotypes viz., Roma Local, Rio Grande, Tanja, Chico III, Long Tipped, Red- Top, FS-8001, FS-8002, Tropic, Pakit, Peelo, NARC-1, Roma VFN, Pant Bahr, Ebein, Nova Mech, Rockingham, Nagina, Shal ... Read More
The present study was undertaken to investigate the inheritance of wilt resistance of chickpea genotypes under field conditions. Inheritance of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum was studied in a set o ... Read More
Haploids are helpful in studies for intergenomic relationship, identifying molecular markers, reducing time period of varietal development and increasing efficiency of breeding program. In case of br ... Read More
Higher yield in different maize hybrids is obtained simply by increasing the plant density, but it is not so simple that by increasing plant density would multiply the grain yield through many folds. ... Read More
Genetic variability, heritability and interrelationships for seed yield and its components (days taken to 50% flowering, plant height, number of pods per plant, days taken to 90% maturity, 100-seed w ... Read More
A field trial was conducted for two years to evaluate the effect of different trench spacings and doses of Zinc (Zn) and Iron (Fe) on yield and quality of sugarcane. The treatments comprised of three ... Read More
A pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of organic and inorganic mulch materials on the vegetative and reproductive components of chili cultivar Sanam (Capsicum annuum L.) Mulch treatme ... Read More
Present studies were carried out to determine the effect of some growth regulators, their application methods and environmental conditions on root induction in aerial offshoots of date palm cultivar ... Read More
Land based livelihood options overwhelmingly predominate in an agrarian society like Nepal because nonagricultural sectors, namely, trade, commerce and industry have not flourished and also have not ... Read More
