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No onion export at Wagah despite lifting of ban

LAHORE, Jan 13: No onion exporter approached the Customs authorities at Wagah Border on Thursday to get clear their consignments for India, Dawn has learnt.

14 January, 2011
Daily Dawn
india, Lahore, market, onion, wagah
14 January, 2011

Sugarcane price war spurs gur making

To avoid financial losses because of slow off-take of cane by sugar mills and encouraged by rising market prices, cane growers in Sindh have geared up gur making. The protracted cane price issue between the growers and the millers is hurting the cane crushing activity and has left sizeable crop standing in the fields.
10 January, 2011
Saleem Shaikh
Daily Dawn
10 January, 2011

One man’s meat is another man’s poison

LAHORE, Dec 16: The Punjab government has failed to encourage the private-sector initiatives to provide low-cost and quality meat to people.
Although it had established the Lahore Meat Company (LMC) earlier this year in the provincial capital, the facility has yet to expand to other parts of the province.

31 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Khalid Hasnain
17 December, 2010

AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY Belated decision on wheat export

AFTER months of foot dragging on the issue, the federal government finally this week allowed export of one million tons of wheat and its products.
14 December, 2010
Ahmad Fraz Khan
export, market, wheat
13 December, 2010

Elite Pakistani Students Pick Up Trash To Clean Up The Country

On a sleepy Sunday afternoon in the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, 6 high school students from an elite school are spending a few hours doing the unexpected. As shiny sports cars take languid rounds of the outdoor arena in Jinnah market, a posh shopping area, they slow down to get a closer look of what these youngsters are doing.
06 December, 2010
Nosheen Abbas
19 August, 2009

Agriculture deserves as much attention as industry: growers

HYDERABAD, Nov 12: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has demanded that the government should give agriculture sector status equal to that of industrial sector and farmers should be extended easy-to-get loans on their agriculture land, a facility available to industrialists on their industrial units.

01 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Bureau Report
13 December, 2010

‘Identifiable’ flour bags for Ramazan

 LAHORE, July 24: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced that a 20kg flour bag will be made available in the open market at a concessionary rate of Rs425, whereas 20kg and 10kg bags will be offered in Ramazan bazaars at the rate of Rs400 and Rs200, respectively. He said bags of special colour would be prepared for selling flour at concessionary rates.

04 August, 2010
Daily Dawn
Our Staff Reporter
25 July, 2010