{"id":65591,"date":"2020-05-18T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=65591"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:03:41","slug":"pkr-37bn-subsidy-approved-fertilisers-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-37bn-subsidy-approved-fertilisers-farmers.html","title":{"rendered":"PKR 37bn subsidy approved on fertilisers for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal government recently approved a subsidy worth PKR 37 billion on fertilisers for farmers under its relief package for the agriculture sector amid the country&#8217;s ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-bor-allocates-114-kanals-for-expansion-of-dps-sahiwal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab BoR allocates 114 kanals for expansion of DPS Sahiwal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, the relief package is designed to promote agricultural production and support growers besides subsiding the fertilisers. The government will provide a subsidy of PKR 925 per bag of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) and a subsidy of PKR 243 per bag on urea and other fertilisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-cm-seeks-sops-for-resuming-public-transport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab CM seeks detailed SOPs for resuming public transport<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, a senior official of the Ministry of National Food Security informed that 3.04 million tons of urea and 0.95 million tons of DAP will be purchased. The official further said that the subsidy would be provided for the ongoing Kharif season that begins from April and lasts till October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-invites-public-proposals-prioritising-govt-spending-budget-2020-21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab invites public proposals for prioritising govt spending under Budget 2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, he informed that the provincial government would implement the subsidy through a scratch card scheme \u2013 which was already conducted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-allows-conditional-reopening-salons-gyms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab<\/a>. He also said that the fertilisers consumed 10 to 15 percent in the cost of production for farmers and the provision of the said subsidy would increase the affordability of fertilisers and reduce the overall production costs \u2013 to provide relief to the farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government recently approved a subsidy worth PKR 37 billion on fertilisers for farmers under its relief package for the agriculture sector amid the country&#8217;s ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation, a news source reported. Read: Punjab BoR allocates 114 kanals for expansion of DPS Sahiwal As per the publication, the relief package is designed to promote agricultural production and support growers besides subsiding the fertilisers. The government will provide a subsidy of PKR 925 per bag of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) and a subsidy of PKR 243 per bag on urea and other fertilisers. Read: Punjab CM seeks detailed SOPs for resuming public transport Additionally, a senior official of the Ministry of National Food Security informed that 3.04 million tons of urea and 0.95 million tons of DAP will be purchased. The official further said that the subsidy would be provided for the ongoing Kharif season that begins from April and lasts till October. Read: Punjab invites public proposals for prioritising govt spending under Budget 2020-21 Furthermore, he informed that the provincial government would implement the subsidy through a scratch card scheme \u2013 which was already conducted in Punjab. He also said that the fertilisers consumed 10 to 15 percent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":65593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[29432,29431],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-fertilisers-for-farmers","9":"tag-pkr-37bn-subsidy","10":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PKR 37bn subsidy approved on fertilisers for farmers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government recently approved a subsidy worth PKR 37 billion on fertilisers for farmers under its relief package\" \/>\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\/pkr-37bn-subsidy-approved-fertilisers-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PKR 37bn subsidy approved on fertilisers for farmers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government recently approved a subsidy worth PKR 37 billion on fertilisers for farmers under its relief package\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-37bn-subsidy-approved-fertilisers-farmers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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