Solar powered ‘drought fighter’ ensures water for small farms Presently farmers in Tamil Nadu are battling two problems — acute water shortage and a major power crisis. “Even to pump out the fast dwindling water from the wells for irrigating the crops farmers need electricity. Sometimes they get it after 14 hours or some days they get the supply in 6-7 hours. “There is no fixed time. A few months ago, when I was visiting a field in Kadayam region [...]
February 23, 2013 5:16 pm
In remote areas of East Timor, World Vision is helping families to provide their children with a more reliable and nutritious diet. The introduction of vegetable crops including potato, cabbage and carrot is an important step to securing a healthy future for local communities The 2005 conflict in East Timor aggravated this young nation’s food supply problems when thousands of people fled to impoverished rural villages to try and escape violence in the capital, Dili. In the villages, many families [...]
February 23, 2013 4:55 pm
Greenhouse full of sugarcane seedlings Each year, at the USDA Sugarcane Research Unit in Houma, we grow sugarcane seedlings from true seed resulting from crosses made during the winter. True seed of sugarcane has a shape similar to that of sesame seed but is much smaller, about the length of the commas in this sentence, which helps explain why sugarcane is not sexually propagated on farms and plantations. After about a month of careful nurturing, tiny seedlings can be transplanted [...]
January 24, 2013 6:29 am
There are more than 100 top banana growers & traders, who have talked with me on phone & sent me emails about this new disease of banana in Thatta Sindh, they want to know what it is? and what is the remedy? I suggested them following thing: 1. All banana growers may go & visit “surprise visits” to Agriculture Research Sindh & Sindh Horticulture Research. 2. A joint banana workshop/seminar “Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam, Agri Research Sindh & PARC [...]
December 24, 2012 7:29 am
Punjab Livestock Department under Shadbad Cholistan Project has set up five model farms including Mattanwali, Chapo, Jampur, Mauj Garh and Noorsir Blochan under a four years plan. Each farm comprised of 500 acre of area and cattle of 25 community members have been registered at every farm. In order to review the performance of the project, Secretary Livestock Punjab Muhammad Irfan Elahi, Deputy Secretary (Planning) Khalid Mahmood Chaudhary, Director General (Extention) Dr Muhammad Nawaz Saeed and Senior Member Planning & [...]
December 24, 2012 7:24 am
A well-knitted plan has been prepared for the promotion of Olive cultivation in the country and Azad Kashmir. Overall demand of olive oil is 1.9 million tone of which 1.3 million tone was being imported from different countries for catering the domestic needs and requirements costing Rs 28 billion annually. Official sources told Business Recorder on Sunday that special attention would be focused on the promotion of Olive cultivation and necessary information and guidance are being extended to Olive growers [...]
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 28, 2012 2:49 am
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May 28, 2012 10:17 am
ACCORDING to the agriculture engineering department, issues in mechanisation of farm sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa range from small land holdings, meagre budget allocations, low funds utilisation to shortage of machinery pool and required services. “The major hurdle in farm mechanisation is the lack of coordination among farmers and the private sector together with poverty and ignorance of farmers, says Sardar Alam, a farmer from Swat. An official said though Rs60 million and Rs104 million were budgeted for the ongoing and [...]
May 4, 2012 11:14 am
This fact sheet highlights the progress of rural women against key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators, pointing to some of the advancements made and gaps that still exist. It suggests that globally, and with only a few exceptions, rural women fare worse than rural men and urban women and men for every MDG indicator for which data are available. While data collection along these lines has improved in recent years – in part because of increased donor and government interest [...]
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