According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), Pakistan has achieved a 96 percent adoption rate of Bt cotton, or 3 million hectares of the national total area planted to cotton which was 3.11 million hectares. Around 725,000 smallholder cotton farmers in Pakistan planted and benefitted from Bt cotton in 2017. It…
Hybrid technology has swell maize production by more than three times since it begins for the crop sowing way back in the 1990s, a top official from the private sector said. The maize crop in Pakistan presents a phenomenal success story, spanning over the past 20 years, spokesman of Crop Life Pakistan, said a part…
‘Innovation in Cotton and Biotechnology’ a two-day Sino-Pak international conference will start on November 26 at Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA). Institute of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology in collaboration with Biotechnology Research Institute China, Bahauddin Zakariya University and Punjab government would organize the conference. MNSUA would welcome scientists from China, USA, Iran, Uzbekistan,…
University of Karachi’s (KU) International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) in joint effort with the China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI) recently inaugurated SINO-Pak Hybrid Rice Research Center (SPHRRC) in China. Senior professor of (ICCBS), Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, former chairman higher education commission and federal minister for science and technology, and Dr. Peisong…
Pakistan Central Cotton Committee (PCCC) had so far evolve and pass about 98 high yielding cotton seed varieties for horticulture and commercialization in order to swell per acre crop output across the cotton growing areas of the country. These verities were developed and commercially display from 2000 to 2018, had resulted in significant per acre…
Agriculture scientists of the Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA) in alliance with Australian and the United Kingdom scientists managed to develop hybrid wheat seeds successfully and these seeds would be put on display in March-2019. Director Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization (ORIC)-MNSUA, Dr. Zulfiqar told to APP. The joint venture programme was…
Cultivation and production targets of sugarcane and rice were achieved, whereas the production of these crops had surpassed set targets for the season 2018-19. Stated Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA)The committee met with Federal Secretary Ministry of National Food Security and Research Dr. Muhammad Hashim Popalzai in the chair and reviewed the output of Kharif…
Pakistan was a major importer of palm oil while Indonesia is the world’s largest manufacturer of palm oil and its investors should set up joint ventures in Pakistan for production and processing of palm oil. This was stated by Ahmed Hassan Moughal, president Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, While exchanging views Wisnu Suryo Hutomo,…
The international event between Pakistan and China for Training of Pakistani Professionals on Hybrid Rice Technology concluded at National Agriculture Research Center. The major goal of this effort was up skill a force on Hybrid Seed Development and seed fabrication in addition to adoption of Hybrid Rice advancement for productivity enhancement, profitability and extra surpluses…
According to a study, it is predicted that the commercialization of biotech corn will spur the growth of maize fabrication. Similarly, it is evaluated that the rapid adoption of biotech maize in Pakistan beginning 2019 will deliver around US$1 billion additional benefits to farmers, labor, brokers, and grain use industry in the next 10-year period….