AGL 40.20 Decreased By ▼ -1.30 (-3.13%)
AIRLINK 129.11 Increased By ▲ 1.11 (0.87%)
BOP 6.60 Increased By ▲ 0.34 (5.43%)
CNERGY 4.03 Decreased By ▼ -0.10 (-2.42%)
DCL 8.45 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.12%)
DFML 41.25 Increased By ▲ 0.56 (1.38%)
DGKC 87.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.90 (-1.02%)
FCCL 33.35 Decreased By ▼ -0.75 (-2.2%)
FFBL 65.90 Decreased By ▼ -0.43 (-0.65%)
FFL 10.54 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.19%)
HUBC 110.70 Increased By ▲ 2.00 (1.84%)
HUMNL 15.23 Increased By ▲ 0.77 (5.33%)
KEL 4.78 Increased By ▲ 0.13 (2.8%)
KOSM 7.83 Increased By ▲ 0.50 (6.82%)
MLCF 41.90 Decreased By ▼ -0.82 (-1.92%)
NBP 60.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.34 (-0.56%)
OGDC 182.80 Increased By ▲ 3.83 (2.14%)
PAEL 25.36 Decreased By ▼ -0.34 (-1.32%)
PIBTL 6.26 Increased By ▲ 0.20 (3.3%)
PPL 147.81 Increased By ▲ 1.66 (1.14%)
PRL 24.56 Decreased By ▼ -0.35 (-1.41%)
PTC 16.24 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (0.62%)
SEARL 70.50 Increased By ▲ 0.30 (0.43%)
TELE 7.30 Increased By ▲ 0.08 (1.11%)
TOMCL 36.30 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (0.28%)
TPLP 7.85 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.13%)
TREET 15.30 Decreased By ▼ -0.29 (-1.86%)
TRG 51.70 Increased By ▲ 1.34 (2.66%)
UNITY 27.35 Increased By ▲ 0.45 (1.67%)
WTL 1.23 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.81%)
BR100 9,842 Increased By 47.4 (0.48%)
BR30 30,036 Increased By 389.6 (1.31%)
KSE100 92,520 Increased By 499.1 (0.54%)
KSE30 28,786 Increased By 121.7 (0.42%)

The Met Office on Monday asked the farmers to step up measures to safeguard standing crops and plant nurseries from impacts of extreme weather in winter. It also alerted the growers of plain areas of Punjab and Upper Sindh to foggy conditions, asking them to schedule crops irrigation keeping in view the prevailing dry and cold weather spell until January 10.
However, the forecaster said that a light to moderate rain with snowfall over the hills of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan is expected over the period. Night-time temperature may drop slightly by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius while during the day, it is likely to remain slightly normal in the most parts of the country. A normal wind pattern is expected to prevail in the most of agricultural plains with sandstorms in Southern Punjab and Upper Sindh, it added.
It said that the farmers should also remove weeds from their standing crops at earliest in a bid to attain a maximum yield. It warned that the growers face a considerable loss because of the outgrowth of weeds. In the next 24 hours: Mainly cold and dry weather is expected in the most parts of the country with fog engulfing a few plain areas of Punjab and Upper Sindh during the morning hours.
The lowest temperature was recorded in Astore as minus 9 degrees Celsius, Skardu, Gupis and Quetta minus 8, each, Gilgit and Hunza minus 7, each, Bagrote and Ziarat minus 6, each, Kalam and Kalat minus 5, each and Dir minus 4 over the last 24 hours. "Continental air is prevailing over most parts of the country," the Met said.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2018

Comments

Comments are closed.