Food Security; How Global warming, water and other crisis affect Food Security Main Document Food security is defined as the availability of food and one’s access to it. A household is considered food secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. Stages of food insecurity range from food secure situations …
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Modern Agri-Technology in Farming
Innovation is more important in modern agriculture than ever before. The industry as a whole is facing huge challenges, from rising costs of supplies, a shortage of labor, and changes in consumer preferences for transparency and sustainability.
Top 5-BEST AGRICULTURE COMPANIES IN THE WORLD
To meet this challenge, agribusiness companies are innovating. Their efforts take the form of artificial intelligence (AI) and remote sensors in the field, drones for crop monitoring, ever more potent or targeted chemical solutions and of course, the genetic modification of plants and animals.
Amazan fires: What’s Agriculture Got to Do with It?
The climate change situation has turned the collective environmentalist stare toward the Amazon forest, where thousands of fires continue to burn the forest, blackening the skies.
Top 10 best Fodder & Forages Crops
Berseem (Egyptian clover) Scientific name: Trifolium alexandrinum Rank: Species Higher Classification Clover Lucerne alfalfa Scientific Name: Medicago sativa Rank: Species Kingdom: Plantae Jai (Oat) Scientific Name: Avena sativa Family: Poaceae Kingdom: Plantae Pearl millet Scientific Name: Pennisetum glaucum Rank: Species Higher Clissification: Fountaingrasses Jau (barley) Scientific Name: Hordeum vulgare Higher Classification: Hordeum Rank: Species Jowar (Sorghum) Scientific Name: …
Top 5 Agribusiness Companies
Cargill, USA Revenue: 114.7$US billion Number of Employees: 166,000 Cargill is one of the best agribusiness company in the world. Its is an agricultural and food production giant, responsible for approximately 1/4 of American meat and grain exports. As well as their involvement in every step of the agricultural supply chain, Cargill agribusiness company is an industry leader in animal nutrition …
CORN & BIOFUEL PRODUCTION
Corn (Zea mays) is a popular feedstock for Ethanol (C2H5OH) production in the USA due to its abundance and relative ease of conversion to ethyl alcohol.
FOOD PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING IN PAKISTAN
Produce and consumer is brought together by Food Marketing. As the marketing of a single food product can be a convoluted process involving many producers and companies. i.e, Pakistan has seen an extremely pleasing growth in the frozen foods market by ice-cream segment development. The frozen food ice cream segment’s market size enormously expanded as …
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STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD PRODUCTS
Different food products available in markets cames as a result of a careful process of designing and developing products with the goals to fulfill the demand of consumer’s needs. This process of product developments which is one of the important jobs that food scientist do. Steps involved in food product development are: Ideation Prototype creation …
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DISEASES OF WHEAT
Wheat is the most important grain crop and a staple food for more than one-third of the world population. The major area of the wheat in Pakistan lies in Punjab followed by Sindh. However, the yield per hectare is slightly higher in Sindh as compared to Punjab. It ranks first as a cereal crop in …
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