{"id":52058,"date":"2019-05-13T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52058"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T09:08:14","slug":"sba-proposes-pkr-100-bn-agriculture-package-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sba-proposes-pkr-100-bn-agriculture-package-budget.html","title":{"rendered":"SBA proposes PKR 100 bn for agriculture in budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has requested the government to introduce an agriculture package worth PKR 100 billion in its upcoming budget for the (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported.<\/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>SCA President Qabool Muhammad Khatiyan expressed his views on the matter during a press briefing on Sunday. Vice President Nabi Bux Sathio, General Secretary Zahid Bhurgari, and Haji Nisar Memon were all present at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber members said that the recent devaluation of the rupee against the dollar had increased the per acre cost of production. They added that the dollar appreciation had led to a surge in prices of imported hybrid seeds and pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>Based on these observations, they requested the government to introduce policies aimed at uplifting the agricultural sector. They expressed their regret over the fact that the primary sector had been badly affected due to the country\u2019s prevailing economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/financial-scheme-for-farmers-smes-planned.html\">Financial scheme for farmers, SMEs planned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the members called for the withdrawal of excise and custom duties on agricultural machinery, including tractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has requested the government to introduce an agriculture package worth PKR 100 billion in its upcoming budget for the (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced SCA President Qabool Muhammad Khatiyan expressed his views on the matter during a press briefing on Sunday. Vice President Nabi Bux Sathio, General Secretary Zahid Bhurgari, and Haji Nisar Memon were all present at the occasion. The chamber members said that the recent devaluation of the rupee against the dollar had increased the per acre cost of production. They added that the dollar appreciation had led to a surge in prices of imported hybrid seeds and pesticides. Based on these observations, they requested the government to introduce policies aimed at uplifting the agricultural sector. They expressed their regret over the fact that the primary sector had been badly affected due to the country\u2019s prevailing economic conditions. Read: Financial scheme for farmers, SMEs planned Moreover, the members called for the withdrawal of excise and custom duties on agricultural machinery, including tractors.<\/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":[11625],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-sba-calls-for-inclusion-of-pkr-100-bn-agriculture-package-in-budget"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SBA proposes PKR 100 bn for agriculture in budget - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hyderabad: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has requested the government to introduce an agriculture package worth PKR 100 billion in its upcoming\" \/>\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\/sba-proposes-pkr-100-bn-agriculture-package-budget.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SBA proposes PKR 100 bn for agriculture in budget - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hyderabad: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has requested the government to introduce an agriculture package worth PKR 100 billion in its upcoming\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sba-proposes-pkr-100-bn-agriculture-package-budget.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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