FAISALABAD (February 09, 2010): The spell of rainfall is in progress for the last two days in Industrial City, which has triggered the intensity of the winter, while late spell of rain will be beneficial for cultivated rain-fed crops in whole Punjab, said the agriculture scientists.

MIRPUR (February 09, 2010): Azad Jammu & Kashmir government has evolved an integrated plan to raise the lifestyle of the farmers besides opening new vistas of employment in the livestock and dairy sector under the spirit to overcome the unemployment in the liberated territory, official sources said.

ISLAMABAD (February 09, 2010): Speakers at a seminar on "Water conflict in South Asia and international treaties on environment - analysis and way forward," on Monday called for pondering over the proposal of joint watershed management in South Asia. Director-General Pakistan Environment Protection Agency, Asif Shuja while giving his point of view said that it is time to look into implications of the concept of joint watershed management between India and Pakistan and its impact on environment.

LAHORE (February 09, 2010): Three days of rains in the upper regions of the country have increased daily water inflow in the four rivers of the country by more than 13,000 cusecs, considered by agronomists as the invaluable gift by the nature for the drought-hit wheat and other strategic crops of the country.

ISLAMABAD (February 09, 2010): The Ministry of Industries and Production has proposed to Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet to make production of computerised national identity card (CNIC) mandatory for purchase of sugar from Utility Stores outlets. The ECC in its meeting on Tuesday may approve the proposal.

KARACHI (February 09, 2010): The lowest bid for import of 50,000 tons of sugar to the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) at $723 per ton (C&F) has confused the sugar millers to procure 0.7 million tons sugar to meet sugar crisis. According to Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA), the international sugar prices soared to $732 per ton, but the offer for 50,000 tons sugar at $723.20 /ton has confused the millers to procure 0.7 million tons sugar in the country.

FAISALABAD (February 09, 2010): Faisalabad Poultry Forum and University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) will organise a poultry conference and poultry framers Mela/conference on March 23 at Iqbal Auditorium University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Khalid Mehmood Shouq, PPA leader said that Faisalabad is the third largest city and involvement of more than 2000 poultry experts, farmers, students and other participants make the event a worth seeing.

ISLAMABAD (February 09, 2010): The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF), a joint initiative of the Ministry of Finance, and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) would continue its efforts to assist the fisheries sector in Pakistan in 2010. A statement issued here said that the CSF has been assisting Pakistan's fisheries sector since 2007 on request from an Inter-Provincial Consultative Committee (IPCC).

ISLAMABAD (February 08, 2010): The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has received the lowest bid of $723.20 per ton for 50,000 tons of white sugar against its first tender for 150,000 tons, but the accompanying bid bond has been established in the shape of a Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC) by Dubai Bank Kenya Ltd in Nairobi for $750,000.

MIRPURKHAS (February 08, 2010): Vice President, Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB), Mirpurkhas chapter Haji Abdul Ghafoor Maher advocate has strongly criticised the Irrigation authorities for releasing water in Mithrao Canal only for drinking purpose, as a result wheat and other crops cultivated on hundreds of thousands of acres of land would be destroyed.