• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Trending:
  • Kashmir
  • Elections
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Daily Times

Your right to know

  • HOME
  • Latest
  • Pakistan
    • Balochistan
    • Gilgit Baltistan
    • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    • Punjab
    • Sindh
  • World
  • Editorials & Opinions
    • Editorials
    • Op-Eds
    • Commentary / Insight
    • Perspectives
    • Cartoons
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Featured
    • Blogs
      • Pakistan
      • World
      • Ramblings
      • Lifestyle
      • Culture
      • Sports
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Arts, Culture & Books
  • Lifestyle
  • E-PAPER
    • Lahore
    • Islamabad
    • Karachi

PARC to organize two-day conference on productivity enhancement of wheat

The Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) will organize a two-day national conference aimed at enhancing productivity of wheat crop across the grain producing areas in the country.

The conference titled “Efficient integrated nutrients management technologies for enhancing wheat productivity in Pakistan”, will be held in collaboration with the National Agriculture Research Center from September 6-7. The other objectives of the conference is to maintain food safety and security, besides conservation of natural resources, including water, soil and fertility of the land with adaption of modern and innovative cultivation and irrigation technologies and making the local agriculture produces more competitive and sustainable.

Besides the research scientists and agriculture experts, the event will be attended by the senior officials from the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, and PARC. The representatives of national and international organizations, research and development partners, progressive growers from all across the country will share their expertise to promote and enhance the productivity of major cash crop of the country. Incharge Wheat Enhancement Project Dr Sikandar Shaheen , in a statement, said the government had evolved a strategy to enhance per-acre output of all major crops including wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize and cotton.

He said in order to enhance the wheat produce, the NARC was tasked to develop new high-yielding, climate tolerant seed varieties to enhance per-acre output of the commodity to tackle with the growing demand of wheat and its by products. Under the project, he said, the government had provided 350 metric tons of wheat seeds. Some 15 training programmes were also conducted in the four provinces, including Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to train about 1,500 farmers, while over 2,000 more would be trained during next season to achieve higher wheat production.

Filed Under: Business

Submit a Comment




Primary Sidebar




Latest News

Bilawal Bhutto calls for dialogue with India on Kashmir, water, and terrorism Issues

Pakistan unveils green maritime strategy to modernize ports and fisheries

Pakistan-Russia direct rail service to start june 22, Russia eyes investment in PSM

Federal govt strengthens fight against tax fraud with harsh penalties

KP to unveil 2025-26 budget tomorrow: Key meeting tonight

Pakistan

Bilawal Bhutto calls for dialogue with India on Kashmir, water, and terrorism Issues

Federal govt strengthens fight against tax fraud with harsh penalties

KP to unveil 2025-26 budget tomorrow: Key meeting tonight

Mayor Murtaza Wahab demands Rs100 billion for Karachi’s development

Senator Danesh Kumar questions surge of advisors in senate, demands transparency

More Posts from this Category

Business

Over 20 billion rupees of farmer’s development fund withheld in Punjab, audit reveals

Pakistani energy giants sign major offshore oil deal with ADNOC in Abu Dhabi

Gold prices jump by Rs4,000 per tola in Pakistan amid global surge

SBP’s monetary policy committee to decide interest rate on june 16

Big push for affordable housing: Rs5 billion subsidy in federal budget

More Posts from this Category

World

NATO chief confident of defence spending deal ahead of summit

Meta and TikTok battle EU over “unfair” digital fee in court

Iran won’t bow to pressure or halt nuclear research, says President Pezeshkian

More Posts from this Category




Footer

Home
Lead Stories
Latest News
Editor’s Picks

Culture
Life & Style
Featured
Videos

Editorials
OP-EDS
Commentary
Advertise

Cartoons
Letters
Blogs
Privacy Policy

Contact
Company’s Financials
Investor Information
Terms & Conditions

Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Youtube

© 2025 Your Site Name. All rights reserved.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkPrivacy policy