Punjab approved 2 cotton seed with avg 50 Maund yield (almost 2.5 times than existing seed)

[Sulman Badshah]

Punjab Seed Council approves two new Bt cotton varieties



MULTAN: The Punjab Seed Council Friday approved two new Bt cotton varieties bringing sizeable increase in production and enhancing yield potential up to 50 maunds, agriculture officials said.
A spokesperson to Central Cotton Research Institute Sajjid Mehmood said Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi chaired the 54th meeting of PSC at Agriculture House Lahore and agricultural scientists across the province attended the meeting. He said the varieties have high fiber properties as well as resistance to viruses and high productivity. Pakistan Central Cotton Committee vice president Dr. Muhammad Ali Talpur congratulated the Director CCRE Multan and all the agricultural scientists, particularly the agronomists and other staff of the Breeding Section and expressed hope that Pakistan Central Cotton Committee would continue in the future and its research institutes maintain old tradition of introducing best varieties of cotton to farmers.
Dr Zahid Mahmood, Director, The Central Cotton Research Institute Director Dr Zahid Mehmood said the approved varieties have the potential to withstand high temperatures and give excellent yields in less available water.

 

[TheSnakeEatingMarkhur]

Punjab Seed Council approves two new Bt cotton varieties



MULTAN: The Punjab Seed Council Friday approved two new Bt cotton varieties bringing sizeable increase in production and enhancing yield potential up to 50 maunds, agriculture officials said.
A spokesperson to Central Cotton Research Institute Sajjid Mehmood said Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi chaired the 54th meeting of PSC at Agriculture House Lahore and agricultural scientists across the province attended the meeting. He said the varieties have high fiber properties as well as resistance to viruses and high productivity. Pakistan Central Cotton Committee vice president Dr. Muhammad Ali Talpur congratulated the Director CCRE Multan and all the agricultural scientists, particularly the agronomists and other staff of the Breeding Section and expressed hope that Pakistan Central Cotton Committee would continue in the future and its research institutes maintain old tradition of introducing best varieties of cotton to farmers.
Dr Zahid Mahmood, Director, The Central Cotton Research Institute Director Dr Zahid Mehmood said the approved varieties have the potential to withstand high temperatures and give excellent yields in less available water.

Our seed system was f*cked up by corrupt people...

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Pak needs to give 200% importance to quadruple the agro production, which is plausible according to the studies given the reforms in irrigation and agro technologies are made coupled with constructing dams!! Why? Agriculture is the coming front in the global warfare!!! Why do you think they want an absolute monopoly over the agro sector in India???

 

[GHALIB]

Punjab Seed Council approves two new Bt cotton varieties



MULTAN: The Punjab Seed Council Friday approved two new Bt cotton varieties bringing sizeable increase in production and enhancing yield potential up to 50 maunds, agriculture officials said.
A spokesperson to Central Cotton Research Institute Sajjid Mehmood said Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi chaired the 54th meeting of PSC at Agriculture House Lahore and agricultural scientists across the province attended the meeting. He said the varieties have high fiber properties as well as resistance to viruses and high productivity. Pakistan Central Cotton Committee vice president Dr. Muhammad Ali Talpur congratulated the Director CCRE Multan and all the agricultural scientists, particularly the agronomists and other staff of the Breeding Section and expressed hope that Pakistan Central Cotton Committee would continue in the future and its research institutes maintain old tradition of introducing best varieties of cotton to farmers.
Dr Zahid Mahmood, Director, The Central Cotton Research Institute Director Dr Zahid Mehmood said the approved varieties have the potential to withstand high temperatures and give excellent yields in less available water.

very nice .

 

[Verve]

@Paul2

 

[Paul2]

@Paul2

Well, have look.

My suspicion it will still be incomparably more water hungry than food crops.

You Pakistanis ended up with a very unusual arrangement.

You got exceptionally good agricultural lands, but their size is rather tiny, and almost all of them are in Punjab. The land is very good, but also very scarce.

And you have a huge population to feed.

Quite a dilemma whether to choose cash crops, or food crops. It almost feels as if the land is just "too good" for any available option. No land is left to grow relatively cheap food crops.

The normal food crops are cheap these days, even most nutritious kinds. Thank decades of biotechnology, and genetic engineering.

I believe Pakistan needs to rethink its attitudes to food imports at least a little. It needs to balance the interest of food security, and economic profits.

And besides overusing land in Punjab, you can gain much more if you can recover marginal lands, and making more from ones considered 2nd grade.

In fact, big parts of Thar are fertile, and just need good irrigation technology as proven by Indians on their side of the border, where they advanced 100km+ into the desert in last 10 years. Giant part of Sindh near Karachi would be considered quite good land elsewhere, but is currently left without use. Same with footsteps of Sulaiman, and Kirthar mountails, if you can put just a bit more sophistication to it.

 

[FuturePAF]

Well, have look.

My suspicion it will still be incomparably more water hungry than food crops.

You Pakistanis ended up with a very unusual arrangement.

You got exceptionally good agricultural lands, but their size is rather tiny, and almost all of them are in Punjab. The land is very good, but also very scarce.

And you have a huge population to feed.

Quite a dilemma whether to choose cash crops, or food crops. It almost feels as if the land is just "too good" for any available option. No land is left to grow relatively cheap food crops.

The normal food crops are cheap these days, even most nutritious kinds. Thank decades of biotechnology, and genetic engineering.

I believe Pakistan needs to rethink its attitudes to food imports at least a little. It needs to balance the interest of food security, and economic profits.

And besides overusing land in Punjab, you can gain much more if you can recover marginal lands, and making more from ones considered 2nd grade.

In fact, big parts of Thar are fertile, and just need good irrigation technology as proven by Indians on their side of the border, where they advanced 100km+ into the desert in last 10 years. Giant part of Sindh near Karachi would be considered quite good land elsewhere, but is currently left without use. Same with footsteps of Sulaiman, and Kirthar mountails, if you can put just a bit more sophistication to it.

Turning marginal lands into productive agricultural land should be a priority. They key is management, know how and manpower. I remember the story of an Indian who planted a few plants a day for 30 years and turned a barren island into a forest. Similar to land near Karachi.

Along with turning barren island into fertile land, preserving the soil and the water levels below it as well as its ability to hold on to water needs to be studied and managed. In the US, over a few decades, unsustainable farming methods lead to large swaths of farm land turning into what was called the “Dust Bowl”.

Studying the methods used to mitigate and prevent that would not only save the soil but minimize dust in the air, asthma, and pollution that gets trapped in the air.

Some of the marginal lands, particularly on the western and southern edges of arable land (the direction of the wind) should be turned into vast grass lands. Not only would it prevent the wind from blow as much dust towards farmland and cities, it would help rebuild the soil and hold onto the water.

 

[Verve]

Well, have look.

My suspicion it will still be incomparably more water hungry than food crops.

You Pakistanis ended up with a very unusual arrangement.

You got exceptionally good agricultural lands, but their size is rather tiny, and almost all of them are in Punjab. The land is very good, but also very scarce.

And you have a huge population to feed.

Quite a dilemma whether to choose cash crops, or food crops. It almost feels as if the land is just "too good" for any available option. No land is left to grow relatively cheap food crops.

The normal food crops are cheap these days, even most nutritious kinds. Thank decades of biotechnology, and genetic engineering.

I believe Pakistan needs to rethink its attitudes to food imports at least a little. It needs to balance the interest of food security, and economic profits.

And besides overusing land in Punjab, you can gain much more if you can recover marginal lands, and making more from ones considered 2nd grade.

In fact, big parts of Thar are fertile, and just need good irrigation technology as proven by Indians on their side of the border, where they advanced 100km+ into the desert in last 10 years. Giant part of Sindh near Karachi would be considered quite good land elsewhere, but is currently left without use. Same with footsteps of Sulaiman, and Kirthar mountails, if you can put just a bit more sophistication to it.

Feeding the population is not an issue even right now unless there is a natural disaster. Main issue is hoarding (inc waste) and related inflation.

There is a massive olive plantation drive now, and oil being produced is of the highest quality when compared to the best grades globally. There are a lot of other programs with different fruits being tested all over Pakistan.

Our earlier discussion was Sugarcane v Cotton. In that regards, Cotton should take priority any day. Pakistan's sugar export is peanuts compared to what the cotton export used to be before cotton growing areas were converted to sugarcane. That has to reverse and there are signs that this government is doing that.

 

[ziaulislam]

Punjab Seed Council approves two new Bt cotton varieties



MULTAN: The Punjab Seed Council Friday approved two new Bt cotton varieties bringing sizeable increase in production and enhancing yield potential up to 50 maunds, agriculture officials said.
A spokesperson to Central Cotton Research Institute Sajjid Mehmood said Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi chaired the 54th meeting of PSC at Agriculture House Lahore and agricultural scientists across the province attended the meeting. He said the varieties have high fiber properties as well as resistance to viruses and high productivity. Pakistan Central Cotton Committee vice president Dr. Muhammad Ali Talpur congratulated the Director CCRE Multan and all the agricultural scientists, particularly the agronomists and other staff of the Breeding Section and expressed hope that Pakistan Central Cotton Committee would continue in the future and its research institutes maintain old tradition of introducing best varieties of cotton to farmers.
Dr Zahid Mahmood, Director, The Central Cotton Research Institute Director Dr Zahid Mehmood said the approved varieties have the potential to withstand high temperatures and give excellent yields in less available water.

Fake seeds are so common then most agriculture people dont trust buying seeds