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Articles with tag: agriculture

Water Scenario: Past, Present and Future of Pakistan

Zafir Zia   Jun 23, 2009   interacts: 9

Per capita availability of surface water in Pakistan is gradually dwindling from 5300 cubic meter in 1951 to 1000 cubic meters in 2005 and is projected to hit less than 1000 cubic meters making Pakistan a water short country

A Strategy For Real Agricultural Prosperity

Murad A Baig   Aug 11, 2008   interacts: 31

2.4% farmers control 23% of the land. They are the barriers to India's progress in agriculture. They can be moved, and they must be moved if India is to eliminate rural poverty.

Let’s not Barter Away Our Food Security for GM Crops

Kamal Siddiqi   Feb 26, 2007   interacts: 2

What does all this mean for the Pakistani farmer? On the one hand, GM seeds and crops promise an increased yield. But the catch is that the farmer cannot re-use the seed. This makes the farmer a client of the biotech company for life.

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