{"id":50885,"date":"2019-03-30T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50885"},"modified":"2019-04-01T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T04:37:43","slug":"interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers.html","title":{"rendered":"Interest-free credit scheme announced for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an agricultural credit scheme for small farmers who own up to 50 acres of arable land, according to a publication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/new-policy-planned-to-curb-fraud-in-agri-credit-schemes.html\">Punjab agri policy to prioritise small commercial farmers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP), the Agriculture Department will provide interest-free loans to farmers owning 25 acres of arable land. Similarly, farmers owning up to 50 acres of land will be issued loans at low mark-up rates.<\/p>\n<p>The rules make it mandatory for farmers to get their record digitised at the land records centres concerned. The department will only issue loans to those individuals who have fulfilled necessary requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-82-bn-agriculture-plan-introduced.html\">PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loan amount of PKR 30,000 per acre for Rabi crop harvesters<\/li>\n<li>Loan amount of PKR 40,000 per acre for Kharif crop harvesters<\/li>\n<li>Farmers owning up to five acres will be issued loans on a priority basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applicants can avail this credit facility from the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) or Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/new-policy-planned-to-curb-fraud-in-agri-credit-schemes.html\">New policy planned to curb fraud in agri credit schemes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information contact on these numbers: 0800-15000 or 0800-29000 during office hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an agricultural credit scheme for small farmers who own up to 50 acres of arable land, according to a publication. Read:\u00a0Punjab agri policy to prioritise small commercial farmers Under the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP), the Agriculture Department will provide interest-free loans to farmers owning 25 acres of arable land. Similarly, farmers owning up to 50 acres of land will be issued loans at low mark-up rates. The rules make it mandatory for farmers to get their record digitised at the land records centres concerned. The department will only issue loans to those individuals who have fulfilled necessary requirements. Read:\u00a0PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced Other features include: Loan amount of PKR 30,000 per acre for Rabi crop harvesters Loan amount of PKR 40,000 per acre for Kharif crop harvesters Farmers owning up to five acres will be issued loans on a priority basis Applicants can avail this credit facility from the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) or Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL). Read:\u00a0New policy planned to curb fraud in agri credit schemes For more information contact on these numbers: 0800-15000 or 0800-29000 during office hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":5722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11129],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interest-free credit scheme announced for farmers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an agricultural credit scheme for small farmers who own up to 50 acres of arable land, according to a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interest-free credit scheme announced for farmers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an agricultural credit scheme for small farmers who own up to 50 acres of arable land, according to a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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