Sustainable agriculture in Pakistan would not only be the management and conservation of the natural resource base, but also helpful in rehabilitating the depleted soil fertility, which can be achieve ... Read More
Salt-affected soils are common in countries situated in arid and semi-arid regions, and seasonally dry tropical climates. Pakistan is situated in the same region. Economic use of salt-affected land ha ... Read More
The effect of boron on the yield and ionic composition of rice cultivars having differential salt tolerance, grown in artificially prepared saline (EC, 9 dS re; SAR 5.5) and saline-sodic soils (EC, 9 ... Read More
A solution culture study on selected Eucalyptus species (E. occidentalis, E. tereticornis, E. camaldulensis-var. Silverton, and E. cantaldulensis-Local) was conducted under saline and hypoxic conditio ... Read More
Alkaline phosphatase (Al*? 3.1.3.1) activity of sandy loam soil aging p¬nitrophenyl phosphate, as substrate was determined. Maximum phosphatase activity was observed at 40°C and was significantly and ... Read More
Integrated plant nutrition system (IPNS) is a useful soil management strategy that optimizes and sustains the productivity of rainfed farming systems by increasing the efficiency of nutrient utilizati ... Read More
Varieties differ in acquiring P from soil as well as its utilizing the absorbed P for grain production and this nature of crop varieties may be exploited to improve the efficiency of P fertilizers. Fi ... Read More
In Pakistan, soybean has been grown from the time immemorial on the hills of Northern area. Presently soybean covers about 6350 hectares in Pakistan. Although testing of soybean in Pakistan on small s ... Read More
The study to find out the relationship of soil texture and organic matter with saturation percentage of soils of District Haripur was conducted in Soil and Water Testing Laboratory, Department of Agri ... Read More
The objective of this study was to examine the interactive effects of different Rhizobium japonicurn strains on agronomic traits of different soybean genotypes. In this two factor factorial field expe ... Read More
The objective of this study was to quantitatively determine and to separate the effects of potassium deficiency on growth and development of a maize plant. Maize varieties Vi (Sadaf) and V2 (Sultan) w ... Read More
The analysis of surface waters indicated relatively low average EC (0.273#0.06 enS clef') and SAR (0.51±0.46) values in river waters compared to that of canal waters having corresponding average EC an ... Read More
Two studies were conducted to assess the influence on denitrification of 3 pulse legumes (lentil, garden pea, mung bean) and one cereal (wheat straw) residues at 3% (wfw) in one experiment, and of glu ... Read More
Extensive studies have been carried out to assess the fertility and salinity status of soils in Gujrat district for the provision of guidelines to farmers and researchers for better crop production. A ... Read More
Fourteen wheat cultivars were screened against various salinity levels on the basis of their seedling growth performance up to 17 days. Twenty seedlings of each cultivar were transplanted on nylon mes ... Read More
Behaviour of six wheat varieties viz. Punjab-96, Shahkar-95, Pervaz-94, higelab¬91, Pasban-90 and Rohtas-90 was evaluated in pot supplied with P @ 0 and 75 mg kg''. Phosphorus application significantl ... Read More
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