{"id":59493,"date":"2020-01-06T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=59493"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:48:22","slug":"law-formed-save-kp-agriculture-land-from-urban-sprawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/law-formed-save-kp-agriculture-land-from-urban-sprawl.html","title":{"rendered":"Law formed to save KP agriculture land  from urban sprawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to formulate legislation to prevent agricultural lands from being used for the development of illegal housing societies in the province, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the Agriculture and Livestock Department (KP) has revealed that all housing schemes will now have to mandatorily acquire a no-objection certificate from the government prior to launching their residential projects on farmlands. It has further indicated that preference would be given to housing projects constructed on infertile lands \u2013 in order to reduce developmental pressure on agriculture zones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-to-develop-agriculture-industrial-projects-in-di-khan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KP to develop agriculture, industrial projects in DI Khan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The department officials further stated that out of KP\u2019s total 20.646 million acres of land, over 4.627 million acres were currently under cultivation; with 16.18 million acres being non-cultivable. So far, a total of 14 projects have been approved to bring this unproductive land under cultivation; including 11 projects proposed under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2019-2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-cm-directs-to-set-up-agriculture-university-in-swat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KP CM directs to set up agriculture university in Swat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the government\u2019s released funds for these projects are mainly focused on pursuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ensure-early-completion-water-supply-schemes-kp-cm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watercourse enhancements<\/a>, protecting water resources in rain-flooded areas, developing small and medium dams, and the cultivation of prominent crops and livestock-rearing.<\/p>\n<p>These projects are part of the federal and provincial governments\u2019 joint effort to promote the agriculture, fisheries and livestock sectors in the merged districts to alleviate poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to formulate legislation to prevent agricultural lands from being used for the development of illegal housing societies in the province, according to news sources. In a related development, the Agriculture and Livestock Department (KP) has revealed that all housing schemes will now have to mandatorily acquire a no-objection certificate from the government prior to launching their residential projects on farmlands. It has further indicated that preference would be given to housing projects constructed on infertile lands \u2013 in order to reduce developmental pressure on agriculture zones. Read:\u00a0KP to develop agriculture, industrial projects in DI Khan The department officials further stated that out of KP\u2019s total 20.646 million acres of land, over 4.627 million acres were currently under cultivation; with 16.18 million acres being non-cultivable. So far, a total of 14 projects have been approved to bring this unproductive land under cultivation; including 11 projects proposed under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2019-2020. Read:\u00a0KP CM directs to set up agriculture university in Swat Reportedly, the government\u2019s released funds for these projects are mainly focused on pursuing watercourse enhancements, protecting water resources in rain-flooded areas, developing small and medium dams, and the cultivation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":44415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[14852],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-details-on-law-formed-to-save-kp-agriculture-land-from-urban-sprawl","9":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Law formed to save KP agriculture land from urban sprawl - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to formulate legislation to prevent agricultural lands from being used for the development of\" \/>\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\/law-formed-save-kp-agriculture-land-from-urban-sprawl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Law formed to save KP agriculture land from urban sprawl - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to formulate legislation to prevent agricultural lands from being used for the development of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/law-formed-save-kp-agriculture-land-from-urban-sprawl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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