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Cotton Germplasm of Pakistan
The economy of Pakistan relies heavily on cotton, which contributes ~60% of total foreign
exchange earnings (US$ 15 billion in 2012/13). Cotton is grown on about three million hectares
annually with average lint production ...
Harnessing the potential of family farming in India and China
Ninety per cent of the world’s farmers are in developing countries and 85 per cent of farms worldwide are less than 2 hectares.
Presently, family farming feeds up to 80 per cent of the population in Asia and subSaharan
Africa, ...
Vermicomposting: Recycling Wastes into Valuable Manure for Sustained Crop Intensification in the Semi-Arid Tropics
Producing more food sustainably from the limited and scarce land and water resources to feed evergrowing
population of 9 billion
people in the world by 2050 is a challenge for the human kind in the 21st century. Neither ...