GLG News by Agriculture Experts

Facts provide insight into how much corn must be produced in the long run. Knowing the facts provides a better understanding of how many acres, fertilizer demand and seed technology is required.

Pakistani Government is taking serious steps in promoting stron farming. ecently the government has announced subsidy on DAP

Over the years Pakistan has become one of the leading rice exporters. According to statistics, during the current fiscal year the rice exports climbed up significantly reaching to a level of 4.2 million metric tons.

World poverty and population is increasing at steady rate and there is a strong need to devolop (breed) crops in a way to get maximum benefits from them. Every year a lot of people especially in underdeveloped countries die because of malnutrition. Over the years a lot of crops have been fortified to...

Pakistan has a very strong sugercane market. Pakistan is looking stongly into the possibilities of utilizing sugercane for biofuel production.

Pakistani government has increased the support price for wheat from 625 to 950 per 40 Kg bag. Government targets 25 mn tonnes and backs farmers to go all out and apply fertilizers in desired ratio.

Ug99 is spreading like a wild fire. It is high time to take necessary stepss before it is too late. Significant crop destruction could take place because of this virus. Pakistan is on high alert following detection of the deadly Ug99 wheat stem rust disease in Iran in March 2008.

Wheat and Oil Prices are demand driven and over the years there has been an increasing trend in the prices of these both. World authorities need to pay special attention in order to bring down wheat prices. US commodity exchanges have seen extreme volatility in the past week, with speculation on...

The ethanol industry has grown to nearly 10 billion gallons of annual production, currently replacing 7% of our gasoline.  Most of this production has come on line in the past 10 years and it may just be the beginning.  It appears that the respective economics of oil and biomass are rapidly...

This article has three main issues: 1) Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, the second-biggest U.S. independent natural gas producer, says that up to 400 drilling rigs might shut down by the end of 2008; 2) There are worries that natural gas winter supplies will be less than anticipated...