{"id":60857,"date":"2020-02-02T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60857"},"modified":"2020-02-02T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:07:56","slug":"punjab-launches-five-year-plan-to-raise-rice-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-launches-five-year-plan-to-raise-rice-productivity.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab launches five-year plan to raise rice productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has launched a five-year programme to raise productivity in 15 rice-growing districts of the province at a cost of PKR 6.63 billion \u2013 a news source reported. The programme has been launched under the \u2018Agriculture Emergency\u2019 initiative \u2013 a national programme for enhancing profitability of agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sba-proposes-pkr-100-bn-agriculture-package-budget.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SBA proposes PKR 100 bn for agriculture in budget (opens in a new tab)\">SBA proposes PKR 100 bn for agriculture in budget<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the said initiative, special attention would be geared\ntowards the promotion of mechanized farming. Efforts will also be made to\nensure that best varieties of rice are sown in a timely manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manual transplanting will be replaced by mechanized transplanting of rice nurseries. The project is being carried out in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, Okara, Hafizabad, Nankana Sahib, Bahawalnager, Jhang, Narowal, Kasur, Mandi Bahauddin, Chiniot, Gujrat, Lahore, and Faisalabad districts. In these districts, both Basmati and other varieties of rice will be cultivated over an area of 70,000 acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-cm-announces-pricing-support-measures-for-farmers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab CM announces pricing-support measures for farmers (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab CM announces pricing-support measures for farmers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government will also provide cultivators with a variety\nof rice transplanters, nursery raising machine, direct seedling drills, rice\nstraw choppers, water tight rotators and knapsack power sprayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has launched a five-year programme to raise productivity in 15 rice-growing districts of the province at a cost of PKR 6.63 billion \u2013 a news source reported. The programme has been launched under the \u2018Agriculture Emergency\u2019 initiative \u2013 a national programme for enhancing profitability of agricultural sector. Read: SBA proposes PKR 100 bn for agriculture in budget Under the said initiative, special attention would be geared towards the promotion of mechanized farming. Efforts will also be made to ensure that best varieties of rice are sown in a timely manner. Manual transplanting will be replaced by mechanized transplanting of rice nurseries. The project is being carried out in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, Okara, Hafizabad, Nankana Sahib, Bahawalnager, Jhang, Narowal, Kasur, Mandi Bahauddin, Chiniot, Gujrat, Lahore, and Faisalabad districts. In these districts, both Basmati and other varieties of rice will be cultivated over an area of 70,000 acres. Read: Punjab CM announces pricing-support measures for farmers The government will also provide cultivators with a variety of rice transplanters, nursery raising machine, direct seedling drills, rice straw choppers, water tight rotators and knapsack power sprayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17517],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-punjab-govt-launches-five-year-plan-to-raise-rice-productivity"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab launches five-year plan to raise rice productivity - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has launched a five-year programme to raise productivity in 15 rice-growing districts of the province at a cost of PKR 6.63\" \/>\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-launches-five-year-plan-to-raise-rice-productivity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab launches five-year plan to raise rice productivity - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has launched a five-year programme to raise productivity in 15 rice-growing districts of the province at a cost of PKR 6.63\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-launches-five-year-plan-to-raise-rice-productivity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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