Tag: crops

PFA uproots crops irrigated with wastewater

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Sunday uprooted thousands of kilograms of vegetable crops cultivated on 60 kanal land with sewerage and untreated...

Smog prevention: Farmers asked not to burn residue

LAHORE: Farmers have been advised not to burn the residue of paddy, cotton and other crops as it causes air pollution (smog). A spokesman for the...

Sugarcane growers start hunger strike, demand purchasing of crops at official...

KARACHI: Five organizations of sugarcane growers started a hunger strike outside Karachi Press Club on Sunday against sugar mills for not purchasing sugarcane at...

Farmer in India puts up Sunny Leone’s poster ‘to ward off...

A farmer in India’s Andhra Pradesh is using a poster of Sunny Leone to “ward off the evil eye” from fellow villagers. According to Hindustan...

Breach in canal damages crops in Kandhkot

KANDHKOT: A breach in a canal inundated several acres of agricultural land and damaged the crops here on Friday. Irrigation department sources said that a 20...