Balanced use of fertilizers is essential to increase crop yields per acre: Umair Islam.

NAWABSHAH -- An awareness program was organized by the Nawabshah Department of Agriculture Extension and FFC on increasing the production of sugarcane and other crops per acre at different places for local farmers.

According to divisional directorate of information handout, Informing the farmers on the occasion, FFC's Qadeer Ahmed, Shehzad Anwar and Umair Islam said that balanced use of chemical fertilizers was very important to increase the per acre yield of sugarcane.

Prior to the use of balanced fertilizers, farmers should get free soil and water tests from FFC's state-of-the-art analytical laboratories, as well as guidance on their crops from FFC agronomists.

In the program...