{"id":82700,"date":"2025-08-09T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82700"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:58:16","slug":"provincial-govt-to-provide-rs-100-billion-interest-free-loans-to-wheat-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/provincial-govt-to-provide-rs-100-billion-interest-free-loans-to-wheat-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial govt to provide Rs 100 billion interest-free loans to wheat farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has agreed to the proposal to provide interest-free loans of Rs 100 billion to the farmers before <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kisan-card-punjab-govt-approves-wheat-support-program-for-600000-farmers\/\">wheat cultivation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz regarding the support of wheat farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister ordered a reduction in the cost of agricultural inputs before wheat sowing in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Maryam Nawaz added that wheat farmers will not be left alone; the government will provide full support to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab Chief Minister, while directing to ensure ample availability of fertilizer before wheat sowing, said that targeted subsidy should be given to small wheat farmers for relief.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was briefed that the timely sowing of wheat is necessary for better production in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>A subsidy of Rs 63 billion was given to farmers in Punjab during 2 months. Farmers have obtained interest-free loans of Rs 50 billion through the Kisan Card.<\/p>\n<p>The Briefing noted that a subsidy of Rs 13 billion has been given under the Punjab Chief Minister&#8217;s Wheat Support Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has agreed to the proposal to provide interest-free loans of Rs 100 billion to the farmers before wheat cultivation. A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz regarding the support of wheat farmers. The Chief Minister ordered a reduction in the cost of agricultural inputs before wheat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19158,30611],"class_list":["post-82700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-interest-free-loans","tag-wheat-farmers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82700","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82701,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82700\/revisions\/82701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}