pesticides

The perfect soil

 With major planting time coming up for plains and city dwellers throughout the country, it is time to get into gear by taking a good look at your soil and rebalancing it if needed.

Managing safer use of pesticides

THE indiscriminate use of agricultural pesticides has created serious health and environmental hazards in many developing countries including Pakistan. Millions of farm workers suffer pesticide poisoning every year and at least 20,000 die annually from toxin exposure.
10 January, 2011
M Tariq Javed
Daily Dawn
10 January, 2011

Sanghar farmers decide against wheat sowing

SANGHAR, Nov 14: Many farmers here do not plan to sow wheat because of increasing prices of fertiliser, seed, diesel and pesticides.
Instead, they would likely to keep the existing cotton crop till January-February which will give them additional cotton.

02 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Our Staff Reporter
15 November, 2010