May 24, 2021
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Forest Department has proposed gigantic projects under “Green, Clean and Fruits for All” Program in budget 2021-22 to bolster afforestation, olives farming and beekeeping in the province.
Gulzar Rehman, Conservator South, Forest Department told APP on Sunday that Forest Department was going to another offshoot i.e. ‘Green, Sweet and Fruits for All’ under which olive and indigenous bees flora plants including berry and palosa would be planted in order to promote api-culture, horticulture and fruiti-culture industries.
He said about 70 million wild olives plants have been discovered in KP including 35 million in merged areas. Approximately,15 million discovered in South Waziristan, six million in Kurrum, four million in Orakzai, 3.450 million in Bajaur, 1.5 million each in North Waziristan, Kohat, 1.2 million in Mohmand, one million in Khyber, six lac each in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, eight lac in ex FR Peshawar and two lac each in Bannu and
You wanted to know why Sindh doesn’t have enough water
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The Indus River at Sukkur Barrage. Photo: M. U. Karim
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I have a question that no researcher, water expert or academic has been able to answer: how did Pakistanâs provinces share water from the River Indus before the 1991 agreement and the Indus River System Authority or Irsa? This question drives me crazy every year when people start griping about water shortages in Sindh. The complaining stops when there is news of scattered rains in the north or the monsoon mid-June. And then people forget. Then they start again the next year but we are nowhere near any answers.
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Emergency response fund needed to ease climate change impact
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May 11, 2021
KARACHI: Federal and provincial governments should create an emergency response fund to provide cash grants and interest free credit to help farmers cope up with climate change, a growers’ body said on Monday.
In a budget proposal, Sindh Abadgar Board said insurance scheme should be launched to support farmers in distress.
“Climate change is resulting in increased cycles of extreme events of weather like flooding, storms, extremely hot temperatures. These weather patterns are impacting agriculture and ruins small and medium sized farmers,” it said.
Sindh Abadgar Board said agriculture research budget should be increased to 1.5 percent of GDP.