“We not only have to feed more mouths, we have to feed them right,” says a senior official of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research...
“In that case, we’ll have enough space available for minor crops or minor and more value-added crops,” speculates a young scientist associated with the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research...
A grandfather with his three little grandchildren, one of whom is in a pushchair, stops by at the roundabout across the Sindh High Court building to feed and admire the pigeons...
The place is also known as ‘Kabootar Chowk’ because of the many pigeons who flock there in huge numbers to feed...
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday placed a ban on the opening of new private schools in the province until the private education watchdog formulates a policy for regulating the issues related to privately-owned educational institutions, including proper premises, tuition fee, annual fee and management...
Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Ijaz Anwar Khan also asked the regulatory authority to formulate a uniform policy...
As a result, annual cotton production has fallen short of the target by 4-5m bales, whereas Pakistan continues to produce surplus sugar which is uncompetitive in international market due to procurement price mechanism...
Furthermore, restructuring exercise for the existing institutions such as Trade Development Authority of Pakistan has encountered strong resistance to change and establishment of new institutions i...
WASHINGTON: Facebook said Tuesday it was reconfiguring its News Feed, in a move aimed at giving people more information about what is happening to “the friends you care about...
“The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you,“ said a blog post by Facebook's Max Eulenstein and Lauren Scissors...
KARACHI: The federal government will cancel licences of all the units using small fish in manufacturing of chicken feed...
The banned net traps small fish and eggs used by processing units in making chicken feed...
10 million tonnes, to feed right signals to the market – keeping prices stable because of less production – and save the federal wrath for causing a GDP disaster...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin is determined to make sure that Russians don’t run out of affordable bread, even if it means a few bankrupt farmers and a disrupted grain market...
The country that last year was the fourth-largest wheat exporter is now taxing all overseas sales of the grain
ISLAMABAD: The administration of the military farms Okara has expressed concerns over toxic contamination in the animal feed made from genetically-modified cotton seed which it said was deteriorating the health of its pedigreed cattle...
The military farm believed that aflatoxin, a type of fungus, had made cattle feed bitter and attacked their reproductive system, especially that of bulls, lowering their sperm count...
What isn’t grain — the stalks and leaves — the combine can either chop up and leave on the field to provide cover and organic material, or bale for animal feed...
Although replacing horses was important because farmers no longer had to grow the grain to feed them, the biggest factor in the price drop, according to Prabhu Pingali, professor of applied economics and management at Cornell, was better-yielding crop varieties...
MUMBAI: Indian police successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit ? they force-fed him more than 40 bananas...
The man denied snatching the chain from a woman in the street in Mumbai and swallowed it in a desperate bid to conceal his crime last week, but hospital x-rays suggested otherwise
WITH the government having raised feed-gas prices for the fertiliser industry from September 1, the impact is already visible in the market...
In August alone, the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad picketed for three days in front of the Punjab Assembly and forced the chief minister to assure them that their grievances will be redressed...
TOBA TEK SINGH: As many as six costly cows died, while several other cattle have fallen sick allegedly after being fed poisonous feed at 712-GB village...
A farmer, Hafeezur Rehman, reported to Kamalia Sadar police on Sunday that he bought some bags of cattle feed from a shop at Kamalia for his livestock...
DHAKA: A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh is serving food to hundreds of poor Muslims during Ramazan, in a rare example of social harmony between the religions in the South Asian nation...
Dharmarajika, in the capital Dhaka, has become a hit on social media since it started distributing daily food packs for Muslims who break their fast during Iftar
DHAKA: A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh is serving food to hundreds of poor Muslims during Ramazan, in a rare example of social harmony between the religions in the South Asian nation...
Dharmarajika, in the capital Dhaka, has become a hit on social media since it started distributing daily food packs for Muslims who break their fast at sunset