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Antimicrobial agents are being used in numerous consumer and health care products on account of which their annual global consumption has reached in millions of kilograms. They are flushed down the dr ... Read More
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of wastewater on yield and heavy metal uptake of alfalfa along with a tubewell irrigated crop as control at the Agricultural University Peshawar du ... Read More
The climate change has important and measurable effects in Pakistan. The objective of this paper was to measure these effects on wheat productivity in mixed zone of Punjab province. A time series data ... Read More
The adequate supply of mineral nutrients through chemical fertilizers and manure may help to sustain the crop productivity and ensure plant survival under salinity stress. A field study was conducted ... Read More
With more pressing demands for non-agricultural sectors, availability of good-quality water is falling short of the crop water requirement, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, lik ... Read More
A local strain of Volvariella volvacea Vv pk, locally known as Chinese mushroom was cultivated on six different agricultural wastes including paddy straw, cotton waste, banana leaves, corn stovers, su ... Read More
Contribution of mechanical inputs in farming is considered in terms of farm mechanization. Farm mechanization has helped in increasing the cultivated area and yield of major crops like wheat, rice and ... Read More
Four tehsils of district Kasur (Chunian, Pattoki, Kot Radha Kishan and Kasur) were surveyed and five villages were selected in each tehsil at random. Two water samples were collected from each village ... Read More
In Pakistan, about 18% of total cultivated area is rainfed. The production in these areas is entirely dependent on annual precipitation. The return from agriculture in these areas is low as compared w ... Read More
Soil Salinity is a common problem throughout the world. However, it is seriously affecting the economy of Pakistan by limiting crop productivity on a large area of 6.68 m ha. Various salt tolerant cro ... Read More
Textile industry is known to release huge amount of dyes in the water and soil environments during the dyeing process. The present study was planned with the aim to remove azo dye toxicants from the s ... Read More
Azo dyes are released into wastewater streams without any pretreatment and pollute water and soil environments. To prevent contamination of our vulnerable resources, removal of these dye pollutants is ... Read More
A series of screening experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of rhizobia for producing auxins and improve growth and nodulation of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) were carried out under axenic conditio ... Read More
ils of Khyber Pakhunkhwa Province of Pakistan. Responses of various crops to potash application and soil analysis results of various areas of KP clearly indicated deficiencies of potash. In a survey o ... Read More
A field experiment was conducted for integrated nutrient management in a recently reclaimed soil. For this purpose a saline sodic field was selected at soil salinity research farm having ECe , 7.40 (d ... Read More
Organic city wastes are recycled to prepare composts with improved physical properties and enriched with nutrients for their better utilization. Combined application of composts along with inorganic f ... Read More
Salinity is worldwide problem that limits the growth and productivity of all vegetations and it is going to increasing day by day. The objective of the investigation was to study the response of okra ... Read More
Pesticides applications generate negative externalities for health, environment and also add up to economic cost to cotton producers. Consequently, there is an urgent need of alternative methods of pe ... Read More
The study was conducted with the aim to determine the impact of soil quality on the Bt cotton productivity. A sample of 150 farmers was selected by using multi-stage sampling technique from three dist ... Read More
The upper Indus basin comprises the high mountains covered with snow and glaciers. So the major portion of flow from Indus basin is due to snow and glacier melt runoff. The terrain is difficult to mea ... Read More
Primordial radioactivity in soil depends upon the type, origin and the amount of phosphate fertilizers applied to it. Certain selected cultivated soils of the third largest city of Pakistan, Faisalaba ... Read More