{"id":69874,"date":"2020-08-30T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69874"},"modified":"2020-08-28T18:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:51:45","slug":"speaker-forms-task-force-affordable-agricultural-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/speaker-forms-task-force-affordable-agricultural-loans.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaker forms task force on affordable agricultural loans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Tuesday formed a task force to prepare a plan on providing the country\u2019s farmers with greater access to affordable agricultural loans \u2014 a news source reported. The speaker made this decision while presiding over a meeting of the National Assembly\u2019s Special Committee on Agricultural Products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/national-action-plan-formed-modernise-agriculture-sector-cpec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Action Plan formed to modernise agriculture sector under CPEC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While addressing the meeting, the Speaker stated that the agriculture sector constituted 19% of the country\u2019s economy, but that it did not have access to the proportionate amount of loans from formal sources. He added that such an access would be crucial for the farmers\u2019 productivity, and to help the community get out of \u2018abject poverty\u2019. He further said that there was a dire need to bridge this gap, and that this would require a comprehensive and dispassionate analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-begins-making-its-own-drones-to-facilitate-agriculture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan begins making its own drones to facilitate agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He additionally asked the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan to nominate a high official of the central bank to the task force, which already comprises of various members of the National Assembly, the president of the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd, and the secretaries of the finance and national food security departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Tuesday formed a task force to prepare a plan on providing the country\u2019s farmers with greater access to affordable agricultural loans \u2014 a news source reported. The speaker made this decision while presiding over a meeting of the National Assembly\u2019s Special Committee on Agricultural Products. Read: National Action Plan formed to modernise agriculture sector under CPEC While addressing the meeting, the Speaker stated that the agriculture sector constituted 19% of the country\u2019s economy, but that it did not have access to the proportionate amount of loans from formal sources. He added that such an access would be crucial for the farmers\u2019 productivity, and to help the community get out of \u2018abject poverty\u2019. He further said that there was a dire need to bridge this gap, and that this would require a comprehensive and dispassionate analysis. Read: Pakistan begins making its own drones to facilitate agriculture He additionally asked the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan to nominate a high official of the central bank to the task force, which already comprises of various members of the National Assembly, the president of the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd, and the secretaries of the finance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[38099,38100,38101],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-agricultural-loan","9":"tag-na-task-force-on-agriculture","10":"tag-speaker-forms-task-force-on-affordable-agricultural-loans","11":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Speaker forms task force on affordable agricultural loans - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Tuesday formed a task force to prepare a plan on providing the country\u2019s farmers with greater access to affordable agricultural loans \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\/speaker-forms-task-force-affordable-agricultural-loans.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Speaker forms task force on affordable agricultural loans - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Tuesday formed a task force to prepare a plan on providing the country\u2019s farmers with greater access to affordable agricultural loans \u2014 a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/speaker-forms-task-force-affordable-agricultural-loans.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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