Health professionals target blood-sucking ticks at the core of Iraq’s worst-known outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death by spraying pesticides on a cow. The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever spreads, … Read more
Cotton prices in the United States have risen to a historic high in the last two decades amid ongoing drought in the central parts of the country. The plant fiber reached $1.3171 per pound (about 453 grams) on the key US futures contract, the highest since July 2011. Rainfall has been exceptionally low since early … Read more
BEIJING: The production of Pakistani honey has the potential to rise 10 times, a report released by the China-Pakistan Agricultural and Industrial Information Cooperation Platform (CAPIC) noted. In Pakistan, the honey industry has a favourable reputation and huge potential in making people’s life sweeter. Endowed with rich bee species and flower plants, Pakistan can and … Read more
