Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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Cotton crisis likely as crop comes under CLCV attack
Cotton leaf curl virus, a deadly pest, has badly hit the standing cotton crop across the country due to the use of uncertified and illegal BT cottonseeds, growers told Business Recorder on Thursday. The situation is very alarming and indicates likely occurrence of a huge cotton crisis in the country, as the pest is destroying cotton crop in Sindh and Punjab.
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Drought-like situation for Rabi crops feared
The country may face drought-like situation this Rabi (October-March) as heavy water withdrawals from dams draw down steeply without replenishment because of exceptionally low river flows.
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Biotech is not just GM
Michael Antoniou teaches Molecular Genetics at King
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Diminishing returns
Wilted crops dot the countryside; farmers cry for water, electricity
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Pakistan can benefit from Chinese research in agriculture sector
Pakistan can benefit from 60 years long Chinese research in agriculture sector for superior crop varieties to meet their ever increasing national food grain requirements. Leader of the 4-member Chinese private sector delegation Dr John Liu talking to Vice Chancellor, Punjab University Professor Mujahid Kamran here Thursday, during their visit to varsity, said.
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Virus-hit cotton areas: Farmers for cut in abiana
Farmers have demanded of the Punjab government to declare the district a calamity-hit area due to the heavy damages caused to the cotton crop by recent massive virus attack.
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Drought hits Vidarbhas women labourers
Whenever the farm crisis gets mentioned vis-
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Bt Cotton in India: Development of benefits and the role of government seed price interventions
While previous research has analyzed the impacts of Bt cotton in India, most available studies are based only on one or two years of data. We analyze the technology
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South Asia
BT damage: Thirty per cent cottonseed pods of Bt cotton were damaged in Pakistan
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Regarding Bt Cotton
Kavitha Kuruganti (KK), the author of