Agri expert advises to cultivate new type sesame crop.

MUZAFFARGARH -- Sesame crop has capability to survive in drought condition, Talha Sheikh, Assistant Director Agricultural of Government Seed Farm said on occasion of cultivating new kind of sesame - millennium sesame here on Monday.

He said that new type of sesame, Millennium sesame, was developed by the Nuclear Institute of Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, a subsidiary of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

Talking to farmers,he said that newly discovered millennium sesame was important and cash crop cultivated in Punjab contained more than 50 % edible oil in its seed.

It has good protein estimated about 22 %, he said, adding that sesame oil was closer to olive oil...