Sindh produces vegetables in a fairly large quantity with sufficient trade surplus to cater to some of Punjab and the regional export markets’ demand. This year, for instance, the province had a good onion crop and it is being exported on a sizeable scale, despite the fact that the crop was hit by sprouting (re-germination) and farmers didn’t get a very good price. It was after a gap of two years that Sindh had secured a decent onion crop since [...]
January 12, 2013 9:08 am
Wholesalers have claimed normal price movement at Subzi Mandi, but said the retailers pushed up the prices by at least 10-20 per cent in the last one week. Neither the federal nor the provincial government have any time to check the profiteering as in posh localities the retailers have their own mechanism of making windfall. Even the city administration is not serious to check their profit margin. Consumers said that retailers started charging higher rates attributing the increase to surging [...]
November 16, 2012 10:05 am
Through this technique, farmers can get between 450 and 550 tons of vegetables per acre, compared to the average yield of 15 tons per acre from traditional farming, according to Fareed Farmhouse project director Rana Zahid Tahir Rana is a nuclear physicist who gave up a job in Canada to set up a vegetable farm in Faisalabad. He is part of a growing number of people worldwide who have been drawn in by the extraordinary profits in hydroponic vegetable farming, [...]
September 17, 2012 7:52 am
TOMATOES are grown in all seasons of the year helped by varying climatic conditions across the country. Its early sowing takes place in August/September which fruits by November and is ready for harvest. Nursery for another sowing is prepared in September which is transplanted in October. The plants produce fruits from December to late January. The main crop season is in mid-November when the nursery is prepared. The saplings are planted in February and the crop gets ready in abundance [...]
June 19, 2012 8:26 am
Aiming to tap the very lucrative international markets for fruits, Pakistan, for the first time, is going to import Vapour Heat Treatment (VHT) plant from Japan. With the investment of at least Rs 236 million, the country has almost finalised the procurement process of the plant, which was needed to process fruit especially mango for entering Japanese and other international markets, Business Recorder learnt. According to sources, all parts and other allied machines for the establishment of VHT facility was [...]
March 4, 2012 8:42 am
Horticulture exports could fetch up to $7 billion with a little attention on improving the yield through research and development which is badly lacking at present. CEN Harvest Trading and member export committee of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ahmad Jawad talking to Business Recorder said that while production of fruit and vegetables was coming down in Pakistan, in neighbouring India which is the second largest grower in the world, there has been a significant increase in the production of horticulture [...]
December 8, 2011 8:45 am
By Malavika Sharma and Andrew MacAskill For Punjabi cucumber farmer Jaswinder Singh, the Indian government’s decision to put off the entry of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) into the country is a dream deferred. “Politics is killing the farmers,” said Singh. “The government controls the food chain and the middlemen from top to bottom. Cooperation with foreign companies will help farmers.” The government reversed last month’s decision to allow foreign investment in stores selling more than one brand after protests from [...]
November 22, 2011 11:30 am
InpaperMagzine By Qurban Ali Khushik Earlier green chilly crop had suffered damages in parts of Thar districts. Rainwater was still standing in vast track of land in three union councils of Bashan, Shir Khan and Tali Chilli growers in Sindh have started supplying their produce to local markets but are not comfortable with the prices offered by commission agents and traders. Chillies from Bhan Syedabad, Johi, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Dadu areas are being supplied to various vegetables markets through [...]
October 6, 2011 6:45 am
The Agriculture Department plans to limit potato consumption among schoolchildren to two servings a week. But politicians and farmers in potato-growing states such as Maine say the spud is being unfairly targeted. As it turns out, schoolchildren have strong opinions about potatoes too. LYNN NEARY, host: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is sending its own message to kids. It wants to limit the amount of potatoes in school lunches and mandate no more than two servings a week. That’s about [...]
February 10, 2011 7:35 am
The government has decided to continue with the ban on export of the onion, but opened a small window by allowing transhipment of a southern variety which is consumed in limited quantity. After a meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food, Commerce and Industry minister Anand Sharma told reporters that the Ban on onion export will continue. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said one particular variety of onion export has been allowed in small quantity. The government had [...]
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