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Monday, February 17, 2014
Hydroponic growing leads to tastier vegetables
Growing vegetables hydroponically leads to a more expensive, but tastier veggie, cumberlink.com reports. Tomatoes are the king crop in hydroponics because of the demand for them in early spring and late fall when field tomatoes aren't available. The challenge is to sell them at $2.99 per pound when field tomatoes are going for 99 cents, says Mark Toigo, 42, who has run hydroponic greenhouses for the last 15 years, among other duties, at the...
Food security under threat despite surplus food
Despite the country is enjoying surplus crops especially of wheat and rice, the food security seems extremely chaotic, as high inflation, declining income, unequal distribution of resources and stagnating domestic productivity are hampering attempts to achieve food security. Experts are critically examining this situation giving a warning that the country’s food security is under threat due to the shallow approach of the economic managers. ...
Initiatives for corporate farming
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan enrolled 19 companies in corporate agricultural farming last month. Most of them are in seed, poultry and feed businesses. It is, however, not immediately clear if any of these plan to invest in the vegetable and crop sector. Nevertheless, a growing number of companies are enrolling in corporate farming, which has revived hopes of fresh investment in different areas of agriculture in Punjab, Sindh...
Agricultural technologies can increase global crop yields by 67pc
Pakistan, which has an agrarian economy, is not equipped to adapt to climate change because of its low technological and resource base. It has suffered a loss of billions because of the floods in recent years. A new strategy is required to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The increased demand for food due to population and income growth and the impacts of climate change on agriculture will ratchet up the pressure for increased...
Zinc: Importance and Current situation
Zaghum Sattar & Abdul Saboor Butt Institute of soil & Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Zinc (Zn) is among those minerals that were first considered as essential for plants, animals and human. Zn is a basic essential trace mineral element for normal healthy growth in plants, animals and humans that uptake as a divalent cation (Zn2+) by plants. Zn is playing principal metabolically role in plants and required...
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