Vol. 30, Iss. 1

The Chinese Carp in Pakistan

Shan Ahmad Naveed

The Chinese Carp - Cyprinus carpio belongs to the family Cyprindidae. Its body is usually fairly deep and thick, colour bright, silvery yellow; tail fin large and well forked, anal fin short, dorsal fin long and concave comprising three or four single rays of…

Local and standard volume tables of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn. for irrigated plantations of the Punjab

Raja Walayat Hussain

Range management in Northern Areas

Abdul Aleem

Intro: The Northern Areas comprise of three administrative districts - Gilgit, Diamar and Baltistan. Its area is 70,236 km2, human population about 530,000 cattle population about 1,121000 (about 401,000 animal units). Most of the scanty and erratic rainfall i…

Comparative growth of 52 Eucalyptus species at Peshawar

K.M. Siddiqui, Altaf Hussain

This paper gives comparative growth of 52 species of Eucalyptus at Peshawar at the age of 10 years. Significant differences of survival and height and diameter growth of different species are reported. In addition to commonly planted species of Eucalyptus, oth…

Home and Foreign News

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Home and Foreign News: Woodpower 80 - International conference on Forestry and Wood Utilization 1980

Parasitic weed plants and their natural enemies with special reference to Pakistan

G. M. Baloch, M. A. Ghani

Intro: The important parasitic weeds in Pakistan include Cusxwza spp. (Convolvulaceae); Loranthus spp. (Loranthaceae); Arceuthobium spp. and Viscuni spp. (Viscaceae); Striga spp. (Scrophulariaceae); and Orobanche spp. (Orobanchaceae). They affect a wide variet…

The Sports goods industry in Sialkot

Mohammad Amjad, Iqbal Mohammad

The sports goods manufacturing industry of Sialkot comprises 290 units employing 2,650 workers. 42 work on factory scale and the rest as small units. Very little mechanical equipment is employed. Finishing operations are generally carried out manually. Annual…