Pakistan’s tomato crops — is a crisis looming? on July 14, 2018Many insect, pests, and diseases destructive to field crops, horticulture, floriculture and forests are present in the world, but luckily all are not present in a particular country or geographical region. Pakistan is fortunate not to have many of the pests and diseases yet that are highly destructive to its crops, horticulture and forest. However, […]
Sindh’s cotton emergency on July 3, 2018Due to the shortage of irrigation water during the sowing period, about 30 per cent of the cotton crop in Sindh, particularly in upper Sindh, has become late this year. This very phenomenon is of course not new, and has happened in the past too. In the year 1999-2000 very little or absence of monsoon […]