Although provincial government did not officially announce about discontinuation of wheat procurement, it gives various reasons for not initiating...
Labourers seen busy in construction work of wall of a water canal in Hyderabad city on March 18, 2024. — APPLAHORE: Pakistan will continue to...
A mound of chickpeas is seen as they are packaged to sell at a wholesale market in Karachi. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: The gram chickpea production has...
In order to initiate wheat imports, the minster MNFS&R of PDM government drafted and approved a summary for the import of wheat in 2023
The Kissan Board Pakistan also claimed arrests and high-handedness of police against protesting farmers
Punjab Food Minister Bilal Yasin said in an interview that all important decisions would be taken on Monday on the instructions of Chief Minister...
Standing Committee of Cabinet on wheat would be empowered to reduce or increase the procurement target depending upon the market conditions
According to the official calculation of cost of production at market/procurement center level, farmers have to spend Rs3,304 on 40-kg grains
This representational image shows a man holding urea in his hand. — PexelsLAHORE: The government has missed out on a potential revenue of up to Rs...
Punjab Food Department has not initiated the wheat procurement campaign 2024-25
A poultry worker checks chicken at a poultry farm. — AFP/FileLAHORE : Wholesale poultry traders in the metropolis are selling chicken to retailers...
Pakistani workers process freshly picked cotton at a factory at Khanewal, Punjab. — AFP/FileLAHORE Punjab’s contribution to the national cotton...
Labourers unload cotton from a tractor-trolley at the Ghalla Mandi in Bahawalpur. — APP/FileLAHORE: Cotton farmers are losing their appetite in...
Social media platforms have been flooded with complaints about the abrupt transfer of their votes to different constituencies
In its latest manifesto, the PPP, known for opposing construction of large dams
LAHORE: The fuel tax revenue is expected to exceed its annual target for the fiscal year 2023-24, despite a 13 percent drop in sales of petroleum...
LAHORE: Punjab government has approved a plan to divert floodwater from the Sutlej river to irrigate a drought-prone desert region of Smaller...
LAHORE: The government is considering a gradual increase in the price of urea fertilizer by more than 50 percent and offering subsidies to farmers...
LAHORE: Punjab province, the country's main wheat-growing region, expects to produce 24 million tonnes of the staple grain this year, up 13 percent...
The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association data showed that cotton arrivals at ginning factories by Jan
One of the earliest driest Decembers was recorded in 1999 with 0.0mm
Country produced 2.252 million tonnes of sugar in ongoing crushing season till December 2023, compared with 2.143 million tonnes in same period a...
LAHORE: The Lahore Electric Supply Company suffered a loss of Rs2.23 billion after the government rejected some subsidy claims for zero-rated...
Urea offtake in December fell 24 percent year-on-year to 630,000 tonnes
LAHORE: Sindh province has become the cotton king of Pakistan, beating Punjab province for the first time in production of the silver fiber,...
LAHORE/SUKKUR: Power outages have intensified in the country following major fault in Guddu powerhouse.One of the worst loadsheddings in recent...
The Guddu power house in Sindh is a public sector enterprise working under the Power Division
LAHORE: The power sector is struggling to collect Rs653.95 billion from consumers who have defaulted on their bills, by Auditor-General of...
LAHORE : Lahore Electric Supply Company has dispatched highly inflated bills to hundreds of consumers living in a housing society.I was astonished...
LAHORE: Consumers are feeling the pinch of soaring egg prices as the winter season boosts demand for the breakfast staple, while poultry farmers...
LAHORE: The textile industry in Punjab will have to pay more for gas from January as the state-owned gas utility switches to supplying costly...
KABIRWALA, Khanewal: Posing confidence on cheap off-grid renewable technologies for meeting industrial power needs, one of the country's top...
LAHORE: There has been no let-up in shortage of urea fertilizer and its black-marketing in the peak demand period of wheat sowing, causing...
LAHORE: Talking about the possibility of a gas tariff hike, Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority Chairman Masroor Khan has said costly liquefied natural...
LAHORE: Pakistan has set an ambitious goal to boost annual rice exports to $10 billion by 2030, a fourfold increase from the current $2.5 billion,...
LAHORE: Farmers are struggling to get urea fertilizer at official prices as dealers and middlemen hoard stocks and sell them at inflated rates,...
LAHORE: Punjab’s government has issued show-cause notices to eight sugar mills for failing to start sugarcane crushing by the official deadline,...
LAHORE: The state-owned Pakistan LNG Limited has awarded a tender to OQ Trading of Oman for a spot cargo to be delivered in January 2024, aiming to...
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday received four bids at higher prices ranging from $18.46 to $19.64 per million British thermal units for one...
A ship carrying liquefied gas approaches the new floating terminal for liquefied gas built by LNG Croatia, in the town of Omisalj on the island of...
The picture shows an LNG cargo ship. — AFP /File LAHORE: Pakistan’s four regasified liquefied natural gas power plants, once hailed as the...
Electric towers can be seen in this file photo. — APP FileLAHORE: Pakistan is planning to boost its installed power generation capacity by 40...
Representational image of wheat farm from Unsplash.LAHORE: Farmers have started sowing wheat for the next season, but the government has yet to...
Govt, industry at odds over Punjab cotton estimates, clouding crop forecast. FacebookLAHORE: Cotton production in Punjab, the country's main...
LAHORE: Pakistan is likely to set a highly ambitious wheat production target of above 33 million tonnes for the 2023-24 season, a senior official...
LAHORE: Cotton farmers on Saturday accused the government of deliberately overestimating the size of the crop in the middle of the harvesting season...
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to buy its first spot liquefied natural gas cargo in more than a year, as it seeks to bridge the gap between...
LAHORE: Punjab province, the biggest rice producer in Pakistan, is expected to harvest 5.5 million tonnes of rice this year, the second highest in...
