{"id":40326,"date":"2024-06-22T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=40326"},"modified":"2024-06-22T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T11:33:40","slug":"poultry-subsidy-scheme-to-restart-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/poultry-subsidy-scheme-to-restart-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultry subsidy scheme to restart in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has chosen to carry on the &#8220;layer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/chicken-prices-drop-in-punjab-after-eid-ul-adha-check-latest-rates-here\/\">poultry<\/a> farming&#8221; initiative that Shehbaz Sharif started in 2016 while serving as chief minister, and that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government later carried out.<\/p>\n<p>However, the program was terminated in 2022 following the vote of no confidence that overthrew Imran Khan&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens registered under the program were given a batch of five hens and one rooster, according to the poultry subsidy system. The beneficiaries would receive a thirty percent subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to the Rawalpindi Poultry Research Institute on Friday, Punjab Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Dairy Development Syed Ashiq Hussain Kirmani ordered the resumption of providing egg-laying hens to farmers at subsidized rates.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the need to increase the number of egg-laying hens to meet the demand for eggs in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Set of five hens and one rooster to be provided to registered citizens; minister says govt aims to promote poultry industry in the province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to supporting our farmers and promoting the poultry industry in the province,&#8221; the minister declared. By increasing egg output and lowering farmers&#8217; production costs, the program&#8217;s resumption will lower the price of eggs for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Along with directing the institute to implement nutrition programs, enhance breeding, and raise the number of egg-laying hens, he emphasized the necessity for ongoing research and development in the poultry industry to ensure the industry&#8217;s sustained growth and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has chosen to carry on the &#8220;layer poultry farming&#8221; initiative that Shehbaz Sharif started in 2016 while serving as chief minister, and that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government later carried out. However, the program was terminated in 2022 following the vote of no confidence that overthrew Imran Khan&#8217;s administration. Citizens registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[18890,18889,18888],"class_list":["post-40326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-layer-poultry-farming","tag-poultry-subsidy-scheme","tag-poultry-subsidy-scheme-to-restart-in-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}