Knowledge & Testimonials

PQNK — The Natural Ecosystem Science of Production Agriculture (Story Book, V2)

No Other Business Is as Profitable as Food Production (Lecture, 2023)

Asif Sharif's 2023 lecture, in Urdu, on the viability of farming as a business. Working from slides, he walks through four one-acre crop rotations on PQNK beds, such as rice, potato and maize in a single year, peanut followed by onion and garlic, and melons interplanted with a continuous run of vegetables, with the costs and returns of each. He argues that low input costs, higher quality and a managed supply chain that pays the farmer more and charges the consumer less make food production more profitable than most industries, and calls for Crop Production Management Companies and business investment in the sector.

Pomegranate on PQNK

Pomegranate grown at high density under PQNK, where deep, infrequent irrigation through the fractured hardpan profile prevents the fruit cracking and pest pressure that plague conventionally irrigated orchards.

PQNK — The Natural Ecosystem Science of Production Agriculture (Story Book)

Advanced Canopy Management: Plant "Topping" for Energy Diversion

Part of PQNK's "Four Directives" for guiding a plant's own energy allocation — topping (removing the growing tip) releases apical dominance and redirects the plant's energy from vertical growth into branching, fruiting, and root development.

Channeling Plant Energy: A PQNK Guide to Managing Vegetative Growth

Slit Insertion Precision Planter SIPP