Asghar Ali

• CEO at Etrade Pakistan

Climate Change (CC) induced natural disasters, with the probable increase in duration, frequency, and intensity, are poised to expose globally millions of people to significant risks. These climate shifts are expected to have adverse effects on agricultural lands, leading to hurts in the production of crops and livestock. Hence threatening liveliho...

This study assessed the equity in irrigation water uses and its impacts on paddy yield and water productivity among rice farmers in the Kano River Irrigation Project. Two hundred and twenty-five (225) respondents were used for the data collection from January to June 2021. The data were analyzed using the Kruskal Walli’s test, Tukey kramer post-Hoc...

Increasing population and augmented demand for food have put burden on water resources, crops, and livestock for future sustainability. Pakistan is facing difficulties of water shortage, low crops and livestock productivity, meagre livelihood, and intensive food insecurity. Hence, this study was conducted in Pakistan to explore the nexus of climate...

Due to global and regional climatic dynamics for a couple of decades, agricultural productivity, rural livelihood, and food security have been badly affected in Pakistan. This study was conducted in Punjab, Pakistan, to explore the farmers’ understanding of the impacts of climate change, adaptation strategies, determinants, and benefits on agricult...

Rural people, particularly in developing nations, rely on livestock as a key source of income. In Pakistan, rural people depend profoundly on buffalo, cows, sheep, and goats to earn their livelihood. The systems of agricultural production are at risk because of the negative effects of climate change. It badly affects production and quality of milk...

Carbon credit markets is a trading system for the sale/purchase of carbon credits wherein one carbon credit is equal to 1 Tonn of CO2. Farmers may increase yields and cut carbon emission by using sustainable practices. Present study intends to access the irrational utilization of fertilizers which is major source of carbon emission in Punjab’s. Abo...

It is crucial to boost agricultural production efficiency and efficiently use the few water resources still available in the face of dwindling water supplies and low agricultural water productivity. This study evaluates the irrigation water use efficiency in rice production in Nigeria. Samples of 382 surveys were used in the study; Out of the total...

Introduction While the prevalence of hunger decreased globally, it has risen in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years mainly due to rapid population growth, low agricultural productivity, and economic downturns. This study was conducted to examine food security determinants at the household levels among the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries rice far...

This study aimed to determine the farmers’ perceived impact of climate change on irrigation water and the adaptation measure adopted to mitigate its adverse effects. A binary logistic regression model was used to identified factors affecting the selection of adaptation measures. Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was emplo...

Improving living standards by enhancing agricultural productivity is mandatory to resolve Nigeria’s socioeconomic problems as more than 50% of the country’s population is dependent on agriculture for a living. Irrigation might offer huge potential in Nigerian agriculture, owing to the country’s vast water resources. This review seeks to provide an...

The present research study was conducted during 2020 in Institute of Agricultural Resource Economics, University of Agricutlure, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan to measure the farmers’ understanding regarding the impact of Climatic and Natural Hazards (CNHs) in the CottonWheat Cropping System of Punjab, Pakistan. The study also ranked the impact of cl...

Determinants of Willingness to Pay (WTP) for drinking water facilities help a lot in identifying price concerns and appropriate strategies for the facilities of drinking water to the households. The current study investigates the key determining factors of WTP for drinking water services and presents a logical setup that explains the significance o...

Feeding more people requires an increase in crop productivity. Pulses have an important role in nutritional security across the world. These are enriched sources of protein and are known as’ common men’s meat’ in developing counties. The last two decades have shown a slowly increasing trend (1%) of pulses production across the world. In Pakistan in...

The female population is almost half (49.2%) of the total population in Pakistan. Yet the (published) female labour force participation is at 25%. This is well below the participation rate in agriculture-based countries in South Asia and Africa with the same income level. Recognising that the participation of women in agriculture in Pakistan is not...

To empirically factor out the perceived constraints affecting rice production in the Kano River Irrigation Project Kano State, Nigeria, the current study used cross-sectional data collected through a semi-structured questionnaire complemented by an interview schedule from 217 rice farmers selected via a multi-stage sampling technique in 2020. High...

Groundwater pollution is a serious problem, posing severe problems on many economic activities. The study's main objectives were to access the groundwater quality in the study area and analyze the role of farmers in improving the groundwater quality. Total 108 groundwater samples were collected from different locations along the 11-L distributary l...

Climate change, conventional agricultural management practices, and increasing water scarcity pose a major threat to agricultural production and biodiversity as well as environmental sustainability. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is recognized as an efficient, sustainable, and feasible agricultural system that plays a vital role in addressing the...

This study aimed to assess the prospects of rural micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Punjab, Pakistan. A multistage mixed method approach was opted to conduct the study in three districts of central Punjab, Pakistan. In stage I, seminars / workshops were conducted in six villages. Innovative ideas were discussed with the farmers. In sta...

Chickpea as being alternate of cereal is considered an important pulse crop. Bio fertilizer can increase yield of chickpea through nodulation & enabled it to resist with the periods of drought. The present study was conducted in district Bahawalpur to analyze the economic comparison of experimental (N=10) treatment and control (N=40) for same types...

The planned study was conducted to estimate per acre cost of production and net returns of strawberry. It also identified the factors affecting the productivity of strawberry. The research also put fingers on identifying different marketing channels prevalent in strawberry supply chain. Primary data were collected from 110 farmers engaged in strawb...

This study explores the impacts of adult literacy centers for woman in District Malakand. The students of adult literacy centers of District Malakand constitute the population of the study. There are 6 centers, three each for males and females. A group of 10 women in each female center was selected for focus group discussion. A sample of 30 individ...

Public awareness about safe drinking water plays a significant role in household choices for drinking water sources and the prevention measures of water contamination. The present study was aimed to explore the awareness of households about groundwater quality and investigate the incidence of waterborne diseases in comparison with urban and rural h...

Electrochemiluminescence detection for ␤-amyloid1-42oligomers using silver nanoparticle decorated CuS@CoS2double shelled nanoboxes as dual-quencher, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical (2020), doi: https://doi. Highlights  Silver nanoparticle decorated CuS@CoS2 DSNBs were acting as dual-quencher firstly.  ECL-RET takes place from Au@C3N4 (donor) t...

The present study was undertaken to conduct a detailed survey in all agronomic zones of Punjab, Pakistan to find out the factors responsible for impeding adoption of High Efficiency Irrigation Systems (HEIS) among the farmers. A sample of 242 respondents (farmers and other stakeholders i.e. manufacturers and service providers, NGO’s and Government...

A competitive electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunosensor for sensitive detection of diethylstilbestrol (DES) was successfully fabricated. Initially, molybdenum carbides (Mo2C) with excellent conductivity and large surface area were applied as the ECL reagent nanocarriers of luminol-capped Au nanoparticles (luminol-AuNPs). ECL performance of lumino...

Agriculture supports a large proportion of rural people working either as farmers, casual laborers, traders or hire service suppliers. The agricultural services such as land preparation, drill sowing, transportation, harvesting, threshing and credit provision play a vibrant role in farm production. This study attempts to investigate the role of Agr...

Heart failure is one of the common disabling states and serious illness amongst medical disorders that may lead to death. Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been recognized as a new biomarker of outstanding prognosis-predictive capability for heart failure. In this work, modified carbon nitride nanosheets (m-CNNS) was used as the part of this sens...

Pakistan begins this year with a new export objective of 300,000 tons of Kinnow. They want to generate and expecting USD 20 million. The production is 2.2 m tons. According to Patron-in-Chief Waheed Ahmed- All Pakistan perishable exporter firms, wholesalers, and consumers want to achieve the target the same as they did in 2018. Due to competition i...

We present the case of an asymptomatic woman, a chronic heavy smoker, who presented with an incidental lung mass and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy and endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration did not show malignancy. A positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan showed increas...

The agricultural sector in Pakistan was given a monumental boost after the advent of the Green Revolution as it led to the introduction of improved crop varieties, provision of irrigation water and extensive use of fertilizers and chemicals. Presently, Pakistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and subject to increasing levels o...

High sphingophospholipids in the cell membrane characterize the genus Sphingobacterium . Sphingobacterium spiritivorum is a gram-negative, non–spore-forming, nonmotile bacterium that is ubiquitous in nature and rarely involved in human disease. It is intrinsically resistant to many antimicrobials, which if underrecognized can be potentially life-th...

This paper examined the market integration through price signaling in selected chickpea markets of Punjab using Johnson Cointegration technique. The average monthly wholesale prices of seven Chickpea markets Sargodha, Faisalabad, Lahore, Multan, Layyah, Bhakhar, and Rawalpindi were used for analysis for the period January, 2007-November, 2018. The...

Objective: Asthma education programs have been shown to be effective in decreasing health care utilization and improving disease control and management. However, there are few studies evaluating the outcomes of group asthma education. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of an outpatient adult group asthma education program in an inner-c...

Herein, a highly efficient electrochemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (ECL-RET) immunosensor was established for ultrasensitive insulin detection. Silver/silver orthophosphate/graphene oxide composites (Ag/Ag3PO4/GO) were prepared as sensing platform for capture-antibody (Ab1) incubation. Ag3PO4 is a novel ECL donor whose emission could be...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) improves agricultural productivity and enhance farm income on a sustainable basis, enhance water and nutrients use efficiency, resilient to climatic stresses, and lowering the emissions of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) to a minimum level. Water-smart, energy-smart, carbon-smart and knowledge-smart practices and technologies s...

Recently, alpha fetoprotein (AFP), a tumour marker to identify adult primary liver cancer, has attracted increasingly widespread attention. In this work, an ultrasensitive sandwich-type electrochemical biosensor was fabricated for AFP detection. Electrodeposited gold nanoparticles (D-Au NPs) modified on glassy carbon electrodes (GCE) were used as a...

The study analyzes Psychological Trauma as a result of Corporal Punishment at Secondary Level. The population was all the students of 10th class which made a population of 30200 students in Tehsils of District Malakand of KPK. Sixteen secondary schools and twenty-six students from each school were taken as a sample by using a simple random method....

Background: Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome are two forms of thrombotic microangiopathies. They are characterized by severe thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolysis, and thrombosis, leading to a systemic inflammatory response and organ failure. Plasmapheresis is used to treat thrombotic microangiopathies. A di...

A label-free electrochemiluminescence (ECL) sensor having high sensitivity was operated for detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA) by using silver/silver orthophosphate/graphene oxide composites (Ag/Ag3PO4/GO) as antibody carriers and sensing platform. Firstly, nanoparticles of Ag3PO4 were employed as luminescent materials for solid-state ECL...

In this article, we present first-principles calculations for structural and opto-electric properties of IIIAs (III = Al, Ga, In) in the zinc-blende phase. Our calculations are based on the full potential-linearized augmented plane wave method implemented in the WIEN2k code. We employed Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof generalized gradient and modified Becke...

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) offers teacher education programs from Primary School Teacher to Doctor of Philosophy in Education. The current study is focused on B. Ed., 2-year M.Ed., and Associate Degree in Education (ADE). AIOU has rendered great services in the field of education and particularly teacher education. Distance education inter...

This study explores the impacts of adult literacy centers for woman in District Malakand. The students of adult literacy centers of District Malakand constitute the population of the study. There are 6 centers, three each for males and females. A group of 10 women in each female center was selected for focus group discussion. A sample of 30 individ...

In this work we develop the weighted square integral estimates for the second derivatives of weak subsolution of forth order Laplace equa- tion. It is natural generalization of inequalities develop for the Superhar- monic functions in [1

Cotton is the second largest crop of Pakistan in terms of area after wheat and is being suffered by multiple shocks over the time due to conventional agricultural management practices, climate change, and market failures. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) was introduced by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in 2010, as an innovative cleaner...

For the last few years, cotton has been facing many risks from sowing till harvesting. These risks include natural, environmental, economic and marketing risks that cause severe impact on productivity and profitability of this crop. In Pakistan’s context, such external and internal risk pose severe implications in terms of the provision of raw mate...

The present study investigates the impact of foreign remittance on agricultural development in Pakistan, from different regions of the world. Segregated time series data of remittance, agricultural GDP, primary school enrollment and gross fixed capital formation in agriculture sector were taken for the period 1972 to 2012. Co-integration technique...

Colloidal gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are of interest as non-toxic carriers for drug delivery owing to their advanced properties, such as extensive surface-to-volume ratio and possibilities for tailoring their charge, hydrophilicity and functionality through surface chemistries. To date, various biocompatible polymers have been used for surface deco...

Cotton is the second largest crop of Pakistan in terms of area after wheat and is being suffered by multiple shocks over the time due to conventional agricultural management practices, climate change, and market failures. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) was introduced by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in 2010, as an innovative cleaner...

The present study was conducted to assessed knowledge about important medicinal plants through semi structured interview and questionnaire in area Mandan district Bannu Pakistan. A total of 4 study trips were arranged during 2017 and 2018.Asteraceae was the most leading family followed by Euphorbiaceae, Moraceae and Solonaceae. They used Herbs (29...

The study was conducted to analyze the farm mechanization rental services; to investigate the role of Agricultural Services Providers (ASPs) for increasing the productivity of crops, income of farmers and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents in District Faisalabad. Primary data were collected through well organized and pre-tested questi...

This study seeks to explore the degree of market integration and price transmission in poultry products markets of Punjab. Time series data of daily prices of poultry meat and eggs for 980 days were collected from Poultry Research Institute Rawalpindi (PRI). The data then manipulated in average weekly prices and converted into 140 observations for...

The present study has conducted to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of major grain crops in Pakistan for the period of 1972-2013 by using Tornqvist-Theil index methodology. Time series data of outputs and inputs was collected from different official published sources for the period of 1972-2013. The output index consist of wheat,...

Heat waves threaten human health given the fast changing climatic scenarios in the recent past. Adaptation to heat waves would take place when people perceive their impacts based on their knowledge. The present study examines perception level and its determinants resulting in adaptation to heat waves in Pakistan. The study used cross-sectional data...

Major determinants of edible oil import in Pakistan were analysed at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan during the year 2013 employing Johansen Cointegration model (JCM) and Error Correction Model (ECM) approaches. The determinants were examined over time period of 1982-2012 which included Gross Domestic Product (GDP), import expenditu...

Solar powered tube well can be considered as a reliable and affordable source of supplying irrigation water compared with electric or diesel operated tube well due to frequent load shedding and soaring energy prices. A two year study from 2012 to 2014 was conducted on solar powered tube well installed at the Water Management Research Centre (WMRC),...

The present study was conducted to estimate macro determinants of Productivity growth of major grain crops (wheat and rice) in Pakistan. First Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth was estimated by using Tornqvist-Theil index for the time period of 1971-2010 and then Johansen's Cointegration approach was employed to find the relationship between m...

Cut-flowers and potted plants have an almost 80 percent share of the world trade among ornamental plants. In Pakistan, about six percent of arable land is under horticultural crops, out of which only 0.5 percent is under floriculture. Total local production of cut-flowers is estimated to be 10,000-12,000 tons per annum. The present study examined t...

Agricultural credit plays a pivotal role in enhancing crop productivity by making possible easy access to essential inputs. The present study has been conducted during 2010-11 to investigate the effect of agricultural credit on wheat and cotton crops productivity in Sahiwal district. The data were collected from 100 farmers, among which half were l...

In order to investigate the inheritance pattern of indeterminate growth in Vigna radiata, various related traits were studied. The techniques used for the purpose were generation mean and variance analyses. Narrow sense heritability estimates were also computed. Four out of fifty greengram accessions were selected during preliminary screen trial ba...

Agricultural credit plays a pivotal role in enhancing crop productivity by making possible easy access to essential inputs. The present study has been conducted during 2010-11 to investigate the effect of agricultural credit on wheat and cotton crops productivity in Sahiwal district. The data were collected from 100 farmers, among which half were l...

The coal from Paleocene Hangu Formation is evaluated for hydrocarbon generation potential, using optical microscopy and geochemical analysis. The kerogen type identified is dominated by type-III and maceral type by vitrinite, with collinite being dominant sub-group. The >2% TOC values suggest a promising source of the coal for hydrocarbon generatio...

A generalized neighbor design relaxes the equality condition on the number of times two treatments as neighbors in the design. In this article, we have considered the construction of some classes of generalized neighbor designs with block size k=3 by using the method of cyclic shifts. The distinguishing feature of this construction method is that t...

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been in use as a preprocessing step to clustering for long. We have focused on the clustering of tissue samples in gene expression data. Different clustering techniques and algorithm are available in literature on gene expression data but with the existing ambiguity on the number of clusters, apart from relyin...

It is now more than a decade that the Convention on the Standards of Train-ing, Certification and Watch keeping (STCW) was adopted to improve the compe-tency of the seafarers worldwide. One of the major new developments in the new convention was the concept of competency based training whereby the trainee was to prove the desired competency through...

The agricultural economy of Pakistan grew at a rate of 4.5 percent annually during the last one decade. There were various factors responsible for this low growth rate including agricultural credit. It is imperative that credit and services should be provided to poor farmers so that they can emerge out of their poverty trap through financially viab...

Constraints to sunflower production and marketing in Punjab Pakistan were investigated. Data were obtained from interviews with 70 farmers. Constraints identified include: the problem of adjusting sunflower to the prevailing cropping pattern; absence of proper markets for sunflower produce; and absence of government procurement centres.

Inverse polynomial response surfaces have been very useful as models for data when responses are not symmetrical about their optimum value or when they approach an asymptote. But a special computing routine is required, and the parameter estimates do not have exactly known distributions. An alternative family of models having the same flexibility o...

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Buffalo. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128). Photocopy of typescript.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Education)--Washington State University. Bibliography: leaves 116-123.