Pakistan certifies first organic cotton bale
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
Dawn (Pakistan)
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Compensation increased to Rs54 billion: Mangla dam-affected people
The government has raised the compensatory amount from Rs18 billion to Rs54 billion for disbursement among the people affected by the raising of the country's second biggest reservoir, Mangla Dam. This was disclosed by Commissioner Mangla Dam Affairs Engineer Chaudhry Ameer Afzal while talking to a delegation of Britain-based affected persons, who called on him in his office here on Friday. Mr Afzal said construction work on raising of Mangla Dam would be completed by the end of next year.
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Agriculture education in schools stressed
Agriculture should be taught in primary and high schools in rural areas across Pakistan so that the country's younger generation is better equipped with the knowledge of the subject, says an academic. Talking to a delegation of Australian scientists led by Prof Ray Collins, University of Agriculture Faisalabad acting Vice-Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ashfaq said Pakistan was lagging behind in post-harvest technology and marketing of its farm products.
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Agri scientists want wastage of irrigation water stopped
Agricultural scientists have asked Pakistan to stop its irrigation water from further wastage. Globally, agriculture consumes 70 per cent of water withdrawals, but, in Pakistan it goes up to 95 per cent. Speaking at a seminar on
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Polio vaccine age limit likely to be raised
The Sindh health department is expected to place the issue of vulnerability of children beyond five years to polio in a meeting of international experts on polio eradication scheduled to be held in the city on June 24 and 25. Sources in the health department said that prior to the emergence of cases of polio among children above five years of age, the authorities had no clue to the pattern of the disease in this age group, and now they were considering raising the age-limit for polio vaccination from five to 10 years, to provide protection to children in this age bracket as well.
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Water connection granted from boosting station
The Malir town administration has ordered the installation of a three-inch-diameter water connection directly from a
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Disposal of waste into Phulelli canal to be stopped
District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that from now on the city effluent and waste will not be disposed of into the Phulelli canal
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Small farmers ignored in budget'
Pakistan Kisan Committee president Choudry Fateh Muhammad and Awami Jamhoori Party provincial secretary general advocate Rana Muhammad Azam have criticised the government for ignoring agriculture sector, especially the small farmers, in the proposed federal budget. Addressing a joint press conference here on Wednesday at the district press club, they said though subsidy had been increased on DAP fertilizer but its price was not fixed. They demanded the government should provide subsidy on all fertilizers and pesticides if it really wanted to help small farmers who were facing a crunch.
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Keti Bunder facing sea intrusion
About 28,000 people of Keti Bunder may suffer a major displacement in the next 10 years as the sea is fast eroding their land. With the construction of dams and barrages upstream and stoppage of water downstream, the pace of sea intrusion has increased over the decades. The area has become highly vulnerable to cyclones and tsunamis as mangroves that serve as natural barriers to these calamities are being uprooted at an alarming rate. These facts were highlighted during a tour of journalists to the deltoid region. The visit was organised by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Karachi.
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Water level rises in Tarbela dam
Water level in Tarbela reservoir has increased by about 45 feet during the last six days augmenting the power generation capacity of country's biggest hydel power generation unit. On Tuesday evening the inflow crossed the mark of 300,000 cusecs, raising the expectations of early filling of reservoir during this season, official sources told Dawn here on Tuesday evening. Sources attributed the surging inflow of water in the dam to ever-shooting temperature that caused snow melting in the catchment areas of Indus River.
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Veterinary aid centres set up
The Directorate of Animal Husbandry had established a fieldwork emergency cell and 212 veterinary aid centres across the province to meet any possible eventuality during rains and floods caused by hill torrents from Balochistan and canal breaches, Director Dr Ghulam Sarwar Shaikh said in a briefing to journalists at his office on Tuesday about precautionary measures and arrangements for providing relief to cattle breeders during monsoon season that the cattle breeders could call the cell on 022-9200966.