Concerns that agricultural flood relief may include seeds for Genetically Modified (GMO) Crops may be well founded as figures including Professor Iqbal Choudhry of the International Centre of Chemical and Biological Science at Karachi University are pushing for exactly this.

Human greed, along with actual inflation, is rapidly pushing the price of foodstuff way beyond the reach of a huge chunk of the population of Pakistan and whilst inflation may or may not be justified, there is certainly no justification for storekeepers who charge prices well above advertised rates or juggle the bill in expectation of getting away with what is a criminal offence.

 WITH BT cotton, which now forms an estimated 90 per cent of national production, the composition of cotton pests is changing. 

 QUOTING Pakistan Economic Survey, the Pakistan Agriculture Scientist Association has come up with some statistical realities about agriculture stagnation in Punjab.