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MART-AZR Project Research Report 16: Fourwing Saltbush Forage Compared with Conventional Feeds for Yearling Sheep.
Twenty-four yearling Harnai sheep were used to compare the palatability and nutritive value of the following rations: Fourwing saltbush, lucerne hay, and wheat straw plus barley grain. A palatability index showed that there ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 17 : The Effects of Inoculation and Phosphate Fertilizer Addition on the Productivity of Lentils under Rainfed Conditions in Upland Baluchistan, Pakistan
The experiment reported in this paper was conducted at Quetta in both the 1985/86 and 1986/87 cropping seasons and at Khuzdar, 6uly in the 1986/87 season, to determine the effects of the addition of phosphate fertilizer ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 55: Lentil Production in Highland Balochistan: Current Status
Lentils are one of the oldest food crops grown and used
by man. Today lentils are found throughout the world and
are grown on about 3 percent of the total world area under
pulses. Some countries in West Asia. with ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 36: Germplasm evaluation in the Arid Highlands of Baluchistan annual report 1987/88
MART-AZR Project Research Report 36: Germplasm evaluation in the Arid Highlands of Baluchistan annual report 1987/88.
MART-AZR Project Research Report 49: Evaluation and Selection of Barley Lines for the Balochistan Highlands, Pakistan
This research report series is issued by the Management of Research and Technology Project/Arid Zone Research Component (MART/AZR).
This project is financially sponsored by the Mission to Pakistan of the United States ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 21: Introduction, Selection and Evaluation of Annual Sown Forage Legumes under Continental Mediterranean Climatic Conditions in Pakistan
The upland areas (>1000 m) of Baluchistan Province of
Pakistan experiences a continental semi-arid Mediterranean
climate. The dominant farming system is the production of
range-fed small ruminants which have substantially ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 60: Selection of Barley Lines Suitable for Spring Sowing in the Arid Highlands of Balochistan
Barley experiments were conducted for three years at
multi-locational test sites in highland Balochistan ranging
from 1750 to 2250m elevation in order to evaluate barley
lines suitable for spring planting. Such lines have ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 27: Effect of the Flushing and Late-Gestation Supplementary Feeding on Fertility and Productivity of Harnai Ewes
Eighty-one Harnai ewes grazing native range were used
in an experiment designed to examine the effect of flushing
and late-gestation supplementary feeding on ewe fertility
and productivity at Tomagh Range Livestock Research ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 29: The Potential of New Barley Varieties in the High Elevation Dryland of Baluchistan, Pakistan
In upland Baluchistan winter cereals are grown under dryland conditions, with the addition of conserved moisture from monsoonal rains. The major constraints to production are limited water, uncertain rainfall and extremes ...
MART-AZR Project Research Report 63: Germplasm Evaluation in Arid Highlands of Balochistan: Annual Report of the AZRI Germplasm Research Group 1989/90
Almost 60% of the cultivated area of Balochistan
depends wholly on the winter and monsoon rains, which are
scanty and erratic. Crop yields are severely limited in
most years by water deficits, but low winter temperatures
can ...