Agri Engineering

Agri Engineering

New crop arrival reports, weak world prices depress cotton market

Written by Business Recorder
Friday, 20 January 2012 15:01
Tweet KARACHI (June 28 2004): Harvesting of new cotton crop (2004-05 season) has reportedly commenced in the early sown areas of lower Sindh while sowing is still going on in some areas of upper Sindh and southern Punjab. The other day, I saw a sample of cotton which was said to be from a lot of new crop ginned and pressed in Chichawatni. Some reports said that Sindh seed-cotton...
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Designing Mirani Dam for local needs

Written by Sikander Brohi
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:27
Tweet Water is a scarce commodity in Balochistan. Since long, communities have evolved indigenous institutions for regulating the use of this resource which essentially comprises of surface flows in ephemeral streams , spring water channelled through karezes and groundwater extracted through...
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Mismanagement in farm inputs

Written by Dr Sardar Riaz A.Khan
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:45
Tweet Seed, fertilizers and pesticides are agricultural inputs which increase crop production and water-use efficiency. High cost, mishandling, adulteration and often non-availability of these input son time , and other major constraints, are seriously affecting the agricultural productivity and the...
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Lives and rights at risk: Water sector development

Written by Zubaida Birwani
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:13
Tweet Dams are built to control floods and to store water for hydropower, agriculture, industrial and drinking purposes. But in the second half of the last century, many questions were raised on building of large dams because of their social and environmental impact. These large reservoirs have displaced at least 40-80 million people in different...
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Tractors’ sales surge to 26,816 units

Written by Aamir Shafaat Khan
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:02
Tweet About 200 vendors of the tractor manufacturing industry have inducted 15-20 per cent new hands since June to meet the surging production and sales of tractors and the robust future demand.At least 150-200 persons were employed in a single vending unit ahead of June this year. These vendors have also made further investment since then for...
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How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers

Written by Courtesy: TIME
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:44
Tweet Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant called jatropha curcas.That surprised people in Kibwezi because everyone already knew about Jatropha — it's a weed. Sometimes people planted it to...
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Revamping irrigation system

Written by Bilal Hussan
Sunday, 11 December 2011 23:22
Tweet THE country’s irrigation system comprising three reservoirs, 19 barrages, 12 inter-link canals, 59,200 kilometres of irrigation canals and over 1,600,000 kilometres of water courses is one of the largest gravity flow irrigation system in the world.In addition, this system is supported by 44MAF of groundwater pumped through tube-wells. Of the total cultivated area of...
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Saving irrigation water

Written by Bilal Hussan
Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:56
Tweet ABOUT 22 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) comes from the agriculture sector. Crops are cultivated in irrigated as well as rain-fed areas. However, irrigated farming is most important. Growth of agriculture, however, depends upon environment.About 18.78 million hectares of total 22.94 million hectares cropped area is irrigated. The main sources of irrigation...
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Agricultural Engineering Research in Pakistan: An overview, Impact, and restructuring

Written by Mr. Munir Ahmad
Monday, 28 November 2011 17:53
Tweet Introduction Agriculture contributes: 22% of GDP 44.8% of total employment 66% of rural population depend on agriculture {edocs}/images/documents/ppt22.pdf,600,550{/edocs}
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