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In Karachi's Malir neighbourhood, the fruit orchards cry for help after being neglected by the government and severely impacted by the depletion of groundwater reservoirs.
Karachi is the country's cornucopia, full to overflowing with fruit from all over Pakistan, from neighbouring countries, and distant lands. Besides fresh fruit we have plenty of tinned varieties ...
Officials of parks and horticulture maintain that every year eight to ten thousand trees are planted in Karachi. If that is true, then by now we should have achieved the target of one tree per ...
KARACHI: Karachi, with its scant tree cover, continues to suffer from the adverse effects of climate change, which with each passing day is only getting harsher. While there’s a consensus among ...
The trees will grow in Karachi but they are highly unlikely to produce a crop of any decent size. Temperatures over 38 degrees C cause the fruit to split and summer temperatures in Karachi these ...
The heat wave that killed more than 1,300 people in Karachi seems like a long time ago. Concerned citizens, in the heat of the moment, promised to plant trees, but very little has been said ...
On Sharea Faisal alone there are 300 trees which are in fruit. This is the second year of the fruition of trees. In Defence and other residential localities the residents have grown conocarpus as ...
On Sunday the Catholic charity launched its ‘Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2018’, which is part of its wider three-year project called ‘One Million Tree Plantation Campaign (2016-2019)’.
Karachi: Karachi’s Administrator, Murtaza Wahab, celebrated his wife’s birthday in a unique way - by planting trees at an urban forest in front of the Mausoleum of founder of Pakistan ...
Karachi: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has joined hands with several like-minded civil society organisations to do a spring plantation drive under which 100,000 tree saplings will be ...
Caritas is planting thousands of trees in Karachi to help combat deadly heat waves that affect the Pakistani city each summer. As part of the Trees for the Earth campaign, Caritas will plant 5,000 ...
Karachi (AsiaNews) – The spring campaign to plant trees promoted by the Caritas Office of the diocese of Karachi, southern Pakistan, has started.