{"id":52155,"date":"2019-05-17T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52155"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T09:42:23","slug":"punjab-govt-to-introduce-schemes-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-to-introduce-schemes-for-farmers.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt to introduce schemes for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government will introduce multiple initiatives including a credit guarantee scheme and a risk management programme for farmers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-budget-announcement-likely-in-third-week-of-may.html\">upcoming 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\/pkr-82-bn-agriculture-plan-introduced.html\">PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provincial Minister for Finance Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht recently expressed his views on the matter during a meeting, which was held to review the annual development programme (ADP).<\/p>\n<p>The irrigation secretary briefed the participants on the details and costs of ongoing and future uplift schemes for the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the provincial government will present schemes, which would cater to 45% of the agricultural labour force, in the upcoming budget session.<\/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>These proposed initiatives include the introduction of modern technology for ensuring best farming practices, a rural internship programme, provision of fresh water and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/interest-free-credit-scheme-announced-for-farmers.html\">fertilisers <\/a>for irrigation and crop production, and the procurement of machinery (including tractors for farmers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government will introduce multiple initiatives including a credit guarantee scheme and a risk management programme for farmers in the upcoming budget for the (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0PKR 82 bn agriculture plan introduced Provincial Minister for Finance Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht recently expressed his views on the matter during a meeting, which was held to review the annual development programme (ADP). The irrigation secretary briefed the participants on the details and costs of ongoing and future uplift schemes for the agriculture sector. He said that the provincial government will present schemes, which would cater to 45% of the agricultural labour force, in the upcoming budget session. Read:\u00a0Punjab agri policy to prioritise small commercial farmers These proposed initiatives include the introduction of modern technology for ensuring best farming practices, a rural internship programme, provision of fresh water and fertilisers for irrigation and crop production, and the procurement of machinery (including tractors for farmers).<\/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":[11662],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-punjab-govt-to-introduce-schemes-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 introduce schemes for farmers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government will introduce multiple initiatives including a credit guarantee scheme and a risk management programme for farmers in the\" \/>\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-introduce-schemes-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 introduce schemes for farmers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government will introduce multiple initiatives including a credit guarantee scheme and a risk management programme for farmers in the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-to-introduce-schemes-for-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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