(Daily Aajkal) May 19, 2009
Archive for May 19th, 2009
19 May
FARMER BURNT IN PROTEST AGAINST FOOD STAFF
May 19, 2009 By Dawn Correspondent
Kasur: A farmer sustained burns when he jumped in to fire ignited to protest against the ‘partiality’ of food staff in procuring wheat in Kanganpur on Monday.
Reports reaching here suggested that 200 farmers staged a protest demonstration, blocked the Kasur-Kanganpur Road and burnet tyres to protest against a food department [...]
19 May
Budget 2009-10: farmers’ expectations
By Ahmad Faraz Kahan (May 18, 2009 Dawn.com)
THE arrival of budget season always kicks off discussion on what it would mean for farmers. The agricultural lobbies and individual growers start preparing their wish list from the finance bill, and the government officials get engaged in perfunctory duty of inviting proposals. The current season does not [...]
19 May
Swat farmers suffer huge losses, seek curfew relaxation
Monday, May 18, 2009 (The News)
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Fruit dealers and farmers have called for relaxation in curfew as the forces-militants clashes in Swat district are causing million of rupees loss to farmers and dealers, besides rendering thousands of labourers jobless.
Fruit like peaches have already matured and ready for marketing while apricots and plums would be [...]
19 May
Teams to monitor wheat procurement
Monday, May 18, 2009
By The News Correspondent
THE Punjab government has constituted monitoring and facilitating teams at district level to monitor wheat procurement campaign and ensure implementation of farmer-friendly policies of the government.
The teams will check availability of bardana and bags at the wheat procurement centres in their jurisdictions and ensure that there is no shortage [...]
19 May
Women in agricultural development
By Shabir Mohsin Hashmi and Dr. Khalida Jamali (Dawn.com)
PAKISTAN has inherited very efficient and hardworking rural women labour force. While the participation of women is witnessed in every sector of the economy, it is heavily concentrated in agriculture.
The rural women perform numerous labour-intensive jobs such as weeding, hoeing, grass-cutting, picking, cotton stick collection and separation [...]
19 May
Pakistan won’t import wheat: Agriculture ministry
Monday, 18 May, 2009 (Dawn.com)
DUBAI: Pakistan will not import wheat this year as government incentives to farmers will likely lead to an excess supply of the grain, an official from the ministry of agriculture said on Sunday.
Pakistan, Asia’s third-largest wheat producer, hopes to have an excess supply of 2- 2.5 tonnes of wheat this year [...]
19 May
Growers under serious threat of neo-colonialism
Sun, May 17, 2009
Economics & Business (PAKISTAN TIMES)
Agriculture, the biggest sector of the economy, is under serious threat as gradual sale and lease of large patches of lands to foreigners is been carried out in a very quick and secretive manner, the Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) said. The idea of corporate farming has evoked more [...]
19 May
Increasing maize production for food security
By Tahir Ali (Dawn.com)
MAIZE is the second largest food crop after wheat in NWFP. It is grown in Kharif season and has the highest yield among all food crops. Its importance for a food-deficient province cannot be overemphasised.
According to an estimate, 95 per cent of the maize growing area is located in Punjab and [...]
19 May
Wheat Prices rise, pulses decline
By Dawn.com
BARRING wheat, which maintained its upward drive for the second week in a row, other essential items on the Karachi wholesale market posted sharp decline under the lead of varieties of imported pulses.
Activity in the ready section was relatively slow as fears about law and order linked to May 12, haunted a number of [...]
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