Tag: Farmers
Energy roadmap to help farmers: Agri minister
Punjab Agriculture Minister Ahmed Ali Aulakh said a comprehensive energy roadmap had been evolved to meet agricultural needs through solar energy and biomass and...
US helps Pakistani farmers produce more
A delegation from the American Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA/FAS) Department visited Punjab last week as part of a larger visit to the country...
One mango milkshake for Uncle Sam please
Mango farmers across country continue their partnership with the USAID to maximize yields, improve product quality, introduce better packaging and create market linkages.
All these...
Drainage services to over 40m farmers by 2020: ADB
To assist Asian countries drainage services to over 40 million farmers by 2020, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financed more than 200 irrigation...
Wheating the appetite of farmers, industrialists
As expected, the government approved a massive financial guarantee of over Rs 200 billion for procuring 7.7 million tons of wheat from influential growers,...
Parvez Elahi vies to woo the farmers
A delegation of All Pakistan Agricultural Industry called on Pakistan Muslim League Senior Central leader and Federal Minister for Industries and Defence Production Ch...
Farmers come out on tractor-trolleys against WAPDA for overbilling
A couple of hundred people, including local farmers, lawyers and politicians, took out a tractor-trolley rally against the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)...
PML-N and PPP’s days are over: Imran
Change is not far away and the days of the PPP and the PML-N are over, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on...
ECC directs ZTBL to immediately resume loan facility to farmers
The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) on Friday directed the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) to resume loaning facility to farmers with...
KESC signs biogas project deal with dairy farmers
The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karachi Dairy Farmers Association that marks the completion of the...
Please wear protective gear, vets urge livestock workers
Vulnerability of poultry and cattle farm workers against different infections demands mandatory provision of protective gear for them, said a group of veterinary surgeons...
Farmers uncertain as govt fails to announce wheat support price
Uncertainty grips the farmer community, as the government has failed to announce wheat support price for the current Rabi crop, even though the prices...
Rain affected farmers to get fertilizers on priority
President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday advised the Sindh government and the National Fertilizer Corporation (NFC) to provide fertilizers to farmers on top priority...
Agri Expo to address farmers’ concerns
A two day international agriculture conference and expo arranged by the Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) aimed at highlighting the agriculture, livestock, agro-based industries and...
India’s MFN status suicidal for Pak farmers
Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) has warned that if decision to grant Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India is implemented without taking farmers’ bodies...
Small farmers are optimally utilising their resources
Rice and wheat farmers in Punjab can easily reduce their input cost by 25 per cent – without compromising the output level – by...
Farmers, growers united against import of sugar
The farmers and the sugar millers would suffer badly if the government allows import of sugar, as the sugarcane crushing season could be delayed...
