July 2007
July 23, Dawn	Fundamentals for improving cotton crop Successful cultivation of cotton requires a long growing season, plenty of sunshine and water during its period of growth, and dry weather for harvest. In general, these conditions are met within tropical and warm subtropical areas. To overcome high temperature problem in cotton, research activities are in progress at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, to address the high temperature as well as poor crop stand problem in cotton crop. However, due to some obstacles, collaboration with other leading national institutes is need of the time.
July 16, The Post	3.2b ton maize target set for FY-08 MINFAL said that maize crop was cultivated over the total area of about 1043.94 million hectare and produced 2906.78 million tons of yield during last year. He said that total area under maize cultivation was also increased to 1010 million hectare as compared to the last year, in four provinces of the country. The government has set the target to produce about 3220.92 million tons of maize during the financial year (FY) 2007-08.
July 12, Business Recorder	Pakistan sets target of 20m bales cotton production by 2015 The country aiming to produce 20 million bales of cotton by the year 2015, and this target is quite achievable, said director central cotton research institute Director CCRI, Muhammad Arshad said. He also said that the country harvested a record bumper cotton crop of 14.6 million bales in the year 2004-5, while the production target for the current season has been fixed at 14.14 million bales.
July 08, The Post	Significance of Genetic and biotechnology for Pakistan Like other natural resources Pakistan has a wealth of indigenous bacterial flora, which could be exploited for various purposes; several indigenous bacterial strains were isolated from diverse environment such as soil, water agriculture fields, fruits, vegetables and animals etc; these strains were purified and characterized at different level and selected for different uses in the field of health, environment, agriculture, renewable energy and industry.