Special seed packets

Published July 21, 2003

ISLAMABAD July 20: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has ordered ministry of finance to release Rs4 million for providing special seed packets to the farmers in Balochistan for the coming crops.

Sources said that the step aims at providing extra help to the farmers in arid areas which have received more rains this year enabling them to cultivate more land. Under the scheme, each farmer will be provided, maize and other crops seeds in five kilograms packets.—Staff Repoter

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