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This research has been conducted with a view to investigate the current status of Early Childhood Care and Education in Sindh, its comparative analysis with Punjab and KPK, highlighting, Gaps and Challenges in ECCE, such as Lack of proper legislation, Restrictive Budget for ECCE, In-adequate Infrastructure, Lack of Awareness Regarding ECCE Schooling System, No Standardized ECCE Curriculum, Recruitment of ECCE Teachers, Absence of formal ECCE teaching cadre, No vigilant Monitoring and Evaluation, Poverty Syndrome. Role of Deeni Madarsah, less Enrollment, Quick Dropout of Students, No Female Teacher Availability, Burdening Role of Private Schools in Providing Costly ECCE Schooling. To determine practical solutions for improving and promoting Early Childhood Education. For this purpose of the study, the provincial education managers collected data, and in the three provinces, the research findings and recommendations provide strategic guidance to the stakeholders of Sindh province to sustain Early Childhood Education. All recommendation of implementation of NEP 2009/2017, increasing ECCE budget, recruiting of ECCE cadre teachers on merit, improvement of existing ECCE schooling system by proving basic facilities along with study material of ECCE if complied in letter and spirit ecce schooling will boost and produce educated gentry in fact an educated nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water management is one crucial component of agribusiness and municipal policy. One of the water-oriented dimensions is irrigation. In Pakistan, there is a lack of water system planning and water conservation management. This study is an effort to focus on water conservation and optimum crop yield using cost effective irrigation practices. This study is based on the comparative analysis among four irrigation techniques: flood irrigation (conventional), furrow, alternate furrow, and raised bed on wheat crop in order to decide the most efficient irrigation technique on clay loam soil. The wheat crop was cultivated in Rabi season from November 2015 to March 2018 on a one-acre area of a local farmer of Sajawal district, Sindh. Randomize complete block design (RCBD) method was used to design and allocate 3 irrigation sub-plots. The results show significance p<0.05 and the efficiency of conserved water by using the furrow irrigation was 25%, alternate furrow 49%, and raised-bed 31% in comparison to conventional methods. Furthermore, crop yield indicates that furrow irrigation and raised-bed gave higher yields. The increase in yield was 35% by using raised-bed technique and 20% by furrow irrigation whereas by using alternate irrigation it was 15% in comparison with the conventional method. The soil type is clay loam and saline soil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The experiment on documentation of braconid parasitoids of pink bollworm on cotton crop at lower Sindh was conducted during the cotton season 2016. The results found that maximum parasitoid mean population 175.85±0.16 was recorded from Sanghar and lowest population 139.42±0.45 from Umerkot district. The highest population was recorded in the month October. Highest number of Bracon gelechiae found than other in all selected districts. Parasitoids were active during the month of November. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]