Issue · 1981
Vol. 31, Iss. 1
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Dry afforestation experiments in Peshawar
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
To test the survival and growth of different tree species, under climatic conditions obtaining in Peshawar, three studies were laid out in the Pakistan Forest Institute in 1977. In all the three studies one year old tube plants were used. Planting was done jus…
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Chemical Characteristics and utilization of AK (Calotropis procera) Fibres
S. M. A. Shah, A. Razzaq, M. T. Younis
Two series of Ak samples, one collected at random from ten different sources at the flowering stage and the other at various stages of maturity had earlier been studied for a number of physical characteristics (14). The series were now investigated for major c…
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Pleistocene Plant Fossils of the Lower Karewa Beds of Kashmir
Relph R. Stewart
I had no intention of adding another botanical field of interest when about 1933 Dr. Helmut de Terra, then at Yale, came to Rawalpindi to collect stone age artifacts from the Soan River terraces near Morgah and to collect fossil bones from the Salt Range. He i…
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Acid stimulation has no adverse effect on Chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) growth
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
500 trees, at two localities were treated with different concentrations of H2SO4 in solution and paste form in conjunction with American bark hack method. The conventional French method of tapping with and without 10% sodium chloride solution was also used. In…
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Prospects of increasing animal products in Hazara Pre-Investment Forestry Project
Sultan Maqsood Khan
At present there are 371 thousand animal units in Hazara Per-investment Forestry Project area, which require 948 thousand tones of air dry forage annually against the present production of only 547 thousand tones from cropland, rangeland and forests combined.…
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Afforestation and Agricultural Development in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi
M. Ihsanur Rahman Khan
Intro: Except for the Liwa oasis, little afforestation or agricultural development work had been undertaken prior to 1975 either in the private or in the public sector in the Western region of Abu Dhabi. Work on the implementation of a number of afforestation…
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Attractancy of granular insecticides for land snail (Helix aspersa, Gastropoda, Mollusca)
Hanif Gul, M. Ismail Chaudhry
Granular insecticides Temik 10%, Thiodan 3% Diazinon 14%Disyston 15%and NaCl were tried as attractants for snails feeding on juniper seedlings. Among them Temik was the most effective, which attracted and killed 99snails released at a distance of 1-2 meters in…
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Effect of fertilization on yield of Sub-tropical humid range lands I-Balakot study
Sultan Maqsood Khan
Four fertilizer treatments namely control, 50 kg nitrogen per hectare in urea, 50 kg of phosphorus per hectare in single super phosphate and 50 kg N+50 kg P per hectare in urea and single super phosphate were applied to range vegetation in subtropical humid zo…
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