Can drip irrigation eradicate Pakistan’s water crisis and food insecurity?

To save water, the country needs to replace its age-old method of irrigating crops with improved yield and quality being tangible benefits

Rice business has the potential to become an industry in Pakistan: Matco director

KARACHI: Matco Foods Limited Finance Director Faizan Ghori, on Tuesday, said that rice which comes second in the list of most exported item...

At-Tahur Limited, Premá milk’s owner applies for listing on PSX

LAHORE:  In a notification sent to the Pakistan Stock Exchange, At-Tahur Limited owner of Premá Milk has applied for an initial public...

Pakistan Army owns $20 billion stakes in fifty conglomerates claims Indian media report

LAHORE:  The Pakistan army exercises control over fifty conglomerates said to be worth $20 billion stretching from banks, industrial plants, universities, milk dairies,...

Sugar Sharks: How does the most powerful lobby in Pakistan get its way?

Scores of sugarcane-laden lorries are parked on the main road in front of an abandoned car-making plant in Sujawal district, about 130...

Matco Foods concludes IPO, gets successfully listed on PSX

LAHORE: A bourse notification filed Monday, Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) approved the application for listing and quotation of shares of Matco Foods Limited...

Naubahar Bottling interested in acquiring 98.23% stake in Baba Farid Sugar mills

The company was founded in 1978 and is based in Lahore and is a subsidiary of Pattoki Sugar Mills Limited
Strawberry growers

KP’s strawberry growers seek financial package to mitigate losses

PESHAWAR: Amid the coronavirus lockdown across the country and the closure of Pak-Afghan, strawberry growers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing heavy losses...

Pakistan needs to build mega dams to enhance water storage capacity

Wapda Chief recommended handing over operational control of the Kalabagh dam to Sindh to ensure its reservations were addressed about its share in water consumption

Matco to setup joint venture company with Barentz International

The JV is being set up for the import, sales, and distribution of ingredients used in pharmaceutical, personal care, food & nutrition, and animal nutrition in the life science and food nutrition sector

75pc cost of Kachhi canal project embezzled by commission agents: PM

AHMAD AHMADANI Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has revealed that almost 75 per cent cost of the Kachhi canal project had gone to the...

ECC instructs to make USC operational again to stabilize food commodity prices

Currently, USC’s monthly sales stand around Rs1 billion and sitting on an inventory worth Rs4.5 billion

Farmers urged to install drip irrigation system

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Agriculture department has urged farmers to install drip irrigation system in their fields as it is cost effective and offers handsome...

Unpredictable rain pattern forces Punjab to build new irrigation systems

LAHORE: Most of Tajammul Abbas’s 17 acres of farmland produces nothing but fodder for his buffalo and three goats. His land, and...

Massive corruption surfaces in tractor subsidy scheme

A massive corruption in the tractor subsidy scheme of the Sindh Agriculture Department has recently emerged. An inquiry into the tractor subsidy...