ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: The federal cabinet is expected to meet here on Wednesday, to approve a policy package for corporate agricultural farming and some major amendments to the Land Reforms Act of 1977.

The meeting, to be presided over by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, would consider a comprehensive package for corporate farming that after a delay of more than four years. The package, sources said, offered incentives to major companies for investments in the agriculture sector besides setting various land holding limits.

The federal cabinet would also consider two separate summaries prepared by the cabinet division relating to two amendments in the Land Reforms Act of 1977, including one relating to corporate farming. The cabinet is also expected to consider a legislation for the disposal of disposable medicines and medical devices.

The cabinet would consider feedback from abroad about the introduction of machine-readable passports, restoration of religion column in these passports as a result of public criticism and handing over of new equipment to regional passport departments.

It would review relief efforts for the tsunami victims in the South and Southeast Asian countries. The cabinet is also likely to allow the authorities concerned to sign preferential trade agreements among the D-8 countries.