Punjab Provide free tractors-levellers to wheat farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced free tractors and land levellers for wheat farmers.
Free Tractors and Land Levellers for Farmers
She announced this as part of the billion-rupee prize package offered by the Punjab government in a major agricultural development initiative to boost productivity and help wheat farmers.
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Planters for 12.5 to 25 Hectares
Planters for 12.5 to 25 hectares of farmland will get 1,000 land levellers while over 25 acres farm land proprietors will be getting 1,000 green tractors free.
These farming equipments will be dispensed through lotteries to ensure that everybody participating gets it fairly and transparently.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said that the farmers of Punjab would not be left alone. “Our brothers” is how she defined the farmers and guaranteed them that the government will take all the possible steps for their prosperity. “We will fully support our farmers in Punjab. Their prosperity and the revival of agriculture is our top priority, she stated.
Interest-Free Quality Seeds: Punjab Provide free tractors-levellers to wheat farmers
But in addition to that equipment support, the government will provide farmers with interest-free quality seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides for wheat cultivation through the Kisan Card initiative.
“People don’t understand how big of a change these record projects started for farmers in a few months-with no example in history,” Maryam insisted.
She said that farmers can call an agricultural helpline or visit the website and Facebook page concerned to avail this free tractor and land levellers scheme. Wheat farmers can also contact the extension office of the concerned department.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz inaugurated the “Kisan Card” initiative on October 28 in Hafizabad as a direct attempt to directly benefit the farmers by bypassing middlemen and ensuring that the actual recipient of benefits are the farmers themselves.
She said the scheme had been planned to be launched by the previous prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who remained abroad because of international commitments. Maryam told that the government is bound to formulate policies which could serve in increasing the interest of the farmer and reverse the consequences of wheat price increase.
“We were blamed for not buying wheat earlier but supporting profit making of farmers is always at the top of our priority list,” she said.
She also launched the “Green Tractor Scheme”, under which she claimed 1.5 million applications had already been received. It was meant to provide as much as Rs1 million in subsidies on tractors worth around Rs4 million.
The government also intended to start machinery hubs in every tehsil so that there will be adequate mechanized equipment available to the farmer at reasonable rates. Maryam disclosed plans to convert 7,000 tube wells operating on diesel and petrol to solar power. The idea is to reduce the electricity expense for the farmer.
Punjab Provide free tractors-levellers to wheat farmers
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