{"id":51504,"date":"2019-04-19T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51504"},"modified":"2019-04-19T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:07:23","slug":"punjab-govt-to-allocate-pkr-9-bn-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-to-allocate-pkr-9-bn-for-farmers.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Govt to allocate PKR 9 bn for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Government of Punjab has decided to allocate funds worth PKR 9 billion for farmers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-budget-announcement-likely-in-third-week-of-may.html\">upcoming provincial budget<\/a> for the fiscal year (FY2019-20), a news source reported.<\/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 prime minister\u2019s agricultural scheme, the government will provide wheat, rice, cotton, and fertilisers on subsidised rates in a bid to facilitate the farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the provincial government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers.html\">introduced an agricultural credit scheme<\/a> for small farmers who own up to 50 acres of arable land under the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP).<\/p>\n<p>Under this initiative, the Punjab 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><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>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 the requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Government of Punjab has decided to allocate funds worth PKR 9 billion for farmers in the upcoming provincial budget for the fiscal year (FY2019-20), a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Punjab agri policy to prioritise small commercial farmers Under the prime minister\u2019s agricultural scheme, the government will provide wheat, rice, cotton, and fertilisers on subsidised rates in a bid to facilitate the farmers. Last month, the provincial government introduced an agricultural credit scheme for small farmers who own up to 50 acres of arable land under the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP). Under this initiative, the Punjab 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. Read:\u00a0PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced 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 the requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":10096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11371],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-punjab-govt-to-allocate-pkr-9-bn-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>Punjab Govt to allocate PKR 9 bn for farmers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Government of Punjab has decided to allocate funds worth PKR 9 billion for farmers in the upcoming provincial budget for the fiscal year\" \/>\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\/punjab-govt-to-allocate-pkr-9-bn-for-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab Govt to allocate PKR 9 bn for farmers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Government of Punjab has decided to allocate funds worth PKR 9 billion for farmers in the upcoming provincial budget for the fiscal year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-to-allocate-pkr-9-bn-for-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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