Rainfall this winter has been nearly 70% less than normal, leading to a major shortage of irrigation water and disrupting ...

The one-day workshop on ‘Deregulating the Wheat Sector’ in Islamabad on Friday, organized by the Ministry for Food Security and Agricultural Research heralded the implementation of one of the most ...

The government's decision to abolish the minimum support price for wheat is technically correct. Its time agrarian produce in Pakistan is regulated on market-driven mechanics and at the same time made ...

ISLAMABAD: Women farmers in rural areas of Punjab and Sindh are spearheading a nutrition-focused agricultural shift by cultivating biofortified zinc-enriched wheat, improving both household health and ...

Pakistan – home to more than 240 ... “flash droughts” in the warmer months to come. Wheat farmer Ishfaq Ahmad Jatt said his harvest in the Multan area of central Punjab has been “badly ...

A winter drought is ravaging crops in Pakistan's breadbasket, farmers said Thursday, with the region parched by a 40 percent drop in rainfall. Sindh, Pakistan's most urbanised province located in ...

A winter drought is ravaging crops in Pakistan's breadbasket ... droughts" in the warmer months to come. Wheat farmer Ishfaq Ahmad Jatt said his harvest in the Multan area of central Punjab ...

SINGAPORE: Global wheat imports are likely to drop this year as slowing economic growth among top buyers, a stronger greenback and higher local cereal output curb grain buying, putting pressure on ...