By Nadeem ShahISLAMABAD: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi Saturday said Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib should be ashamed for maligning Pakistan and advised him.
By Nadeem ShahISLAMABAD: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi Saturday said Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib should be ashamed for maligning Pakistan and advised him.
By Nadeem ShahISLAMABAD: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi Saturday said Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib should be ashamed for maligning Pakistan and advised him.
Ambiguity in the implementation of ban on cultivation of paddy crop in areas on left bank of Indus River has got growers in lower region of Sindh in a fix. ─ Photo courtesy Ahsan Mahmood/File
HYDERABAD: Ambiguity in the implementation of ban on cultivation of paddy crop in areas on left bank of Indus River has got growers in lower region of Sindh in a fix as the ban, which was always meant only for Sukkur and Guddu barrage’s left bank canals, has been extended to Kotri Barrage this year.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah announced the ban in March which is enforced every year under the West Pakistan Rice (Restriction on Cultivation) Ordinance, 1959, to stop cultivation of paddy crop in left bank areas of Indus.
Sindh’s areas of Thatta, Badin, Sujawal and Umerkot have witnessed considerable cultivation of the crop. Photo courtesy www.fao.org/File
HYDERABAD: A progressive farmer, Nadeem Shah, has given up cultivating sunflower crop on his land in Sujawal, one of Sindh’s coastal districts that suit its cultivation climatically. He looks disappointed with this otherwise short-duration crop for a variety of reasons.
His disappointment seems understandable considering the fact that a farmer tends to invest in a crop to earn income and invest the same in next crop. And income-wise sunflower one of the major sources of edible oil production is no longer beneficial for him. It is all about his business preferences.