{"id":66426,"date":"2020-06-09T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=66426"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:48:36","slug":"farmers-to-benefit-most-from-agricultural-relief-package-shaikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/farmers-to-benefit-most-from-agricultural-relief-package-shaikh.html","title":{"rendered":"Farmers to benefit most from agriculture relief package: Shaikh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday stated that the government&#8217;s recently unveiled PKR 50 billion package for the agricultural sector would be most beneficial for the country&#8217;s farmers and crop growers \u2014 a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/agriculture-sector-becomes-primary-focus-of-cpec-phase-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agriculture sector becomes primary focus of CPEC Phase-II<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Shaikh made these comments while chairing a meeting with a delegation of the Farmers Associates Pakistan. During the session, he welcomed the recommendations and proposals presented by the delegation, including plans to reduce the electricity tariff for tube wells, reduce the import duty on fertilisers, reduce the rates for agricultural loans, and improve the procedures for imports and exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecc-approves-pkr-50bn-package-agriculture-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECC approves PKR 50bn package for agriculture sector<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that any proposal to further improve the criteria under which the relief package\u2019s amount is disbursed will also be welcome. He also acknowledged the role of agriculture in generating employment, boosting growth, and alleviating property following the end to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday stated that the government&#8217;s recently unveiled PKR 50 billion package for the agricultural sector would be most beneficial for the country&#8217;s farmers and crop growers \u2014 a news source reported. Read: Agriculture sector becomes primary focus of CPEC Phase-II Dr Shaikh made these comments while chairing a meeting with a delegation of the Farmers Associates Pakistan. During the session, he welcomed the recommendations and proposals presented by the delegation, including plans to reduce the electricity tariff for tube wells, reduce the import duty on fertilisers, reduce the rates for agricultural loans, and improve the procedures for imports and exports. Read: ECC approves PKR 50bn package for agriculture sector He said that any proposal to further improve the criteria under which the relief package\u2019s amount is disbursed will also be welcome. He also acknowledged the role of agriculture in generating employment, boosting growth, and alleviating property following the end to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":64851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[31264],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-farmers-to-benefit-most-from-agricultural-relief-package-shaikh","9":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Farmers to benefit most from agricultural relief package - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday stated that the government&#039;s recently unveiled PKR 50 billion package for the agricultural sector would be most beneficial for the country&#039;s farmers and crop growers \u2014 a news source reported.\" \/>\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\/farmers-to-benefit-most-from-agricultural-relief-package-shaikh.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farmers to benefit most from agricultural relief package - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday stated that the government&#039;s recently unveiled PKR 50 billion package for the agricultural sector would be most beneficial for the country&#039;s farmers and crop growers \u2014 a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/farmers-to-benefit-most-from-agricultural-relief-package-shaikh.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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