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Rs300,000 to be provided from February 8 for each completely damaged house in instalments, says CS

PARC-SARC organizes mushroom farming business training workshop % A training was organized in Plant Pathology labs, FQSRI to introduce spawn production and oyster, milky

Food price volatility bugs fragile Kohistani farmers Business February 5, 2021 HYDERABAD: Ashfaq Palari, a small scale farmer in village Mahinda Palari, situated near Kohistan town of Thana Bola Khan in Jamshoro district is disappointed by the sharp decline in prices of commodities he grew. “Whenever it is our turn, the crop market falls down, leaving us in a helpless situation. Hardly a few days back, we saw onion being sold at Rs100-150/kg in the market. But now its price has dropped to Rs20/kg only,” he said, adding growers even could not recover the cost of cultivation. “Tomatoes...

Thari women entrepreneurs hope for a better new year Business December 24, 2020 HYDERABAD: Moolan Bai, once a peasant woman, working with the men in her family to cultivate crops, now runs a cloth shop at her makeshift hut in the desert village Mithrio in Tharparkar district. She has also motivated her young son to stitch dresses, which she puts on display at the home-shop for sale. She provides unstitched cloth and other materials to him and he designs dresses to attract clients. After this new initiative, Moolan Bai is among several peasant women who feel financially safer. While the men ...