Tag: Farmers

Shortage of gunny bags forcing farmers to sell wheat at lower...

Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) wheat procurement campaign put wheat farmers in trouble as curtailed target of gunny bags forced farmers to...

Punjab govt committed to providing relief to farmers: Shehbaz

Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that Punjab government has given a historic package of Rs.100 billion for progress of agriculture sector and...

CM orders maximum facilities for farmers during wheat procurement campaign

Sharif says agriculture mainstay of national economy and a comprehensive strategy will be implemented for development of the sector Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on...

Poor policies of govt harmed agriculture, farmers: Baloch

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch has alleged that poor policies of the government policies had rendered incalculable harm to agriculture and the farmers. Talking to...

India pledges billions for farmers in ‘populist’ budget

India's government promised billions of dollars to help struggling farmers and boost the rural economy as it unveiled its annual budget on Monday, looking...

Agri deptt to provide 50,000 rose plants to farmers

  The Punjab agriculture department will provide 50,000 rose flower plants, free of cost, to farmers with the aim to promote rose (Gulab) farming, said...

PM announces relief package of over Rs 341b for farmers

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced a massive package of over 341 billion rupees for the farming community. Unveiling the package at a Kissan convention...

Sharif lends an ear to farmers’ demands, sit-in ends

Pakistan Kissan Ittehad calls of its protest at Mall Road after meeting Punjab chief minister Shehbaz says he is a farmer-friendly CM, promises to arrange...

Farmers, young doctors take to roads against Punjab govt

Farmers hold large sit-in in front of Punjab Assembly, demand govt announce subsidy for sector and fix prices of crops compatible with expenses YDA says...

Govt pledges to work for farmers

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar says government trying to provide inputs to farmers at reduced costs; says the supply of non-utilised gas to fertiliser industry...

Trade with India: farmers announce sit-in against govt’s policy

KARACHI The All Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (APKI) on Wednesday announced to observe a sit-in at Wahga border to protest against the government's policy to liberalise...

PML-N will change farmers’ lives after coming into power: Shahbaz

  The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will change the lives of farmers of the country after coming into power, PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif said on...

Farmers end 17-hour-long sit-in on GT Road, conditionally

The Punjab Farmers’ Union has finally ended its over 17-hour-long protest on GT Road against agriculture tax and elimination of subsidy on electricity. The farmers...

‘Urea manufacturers have given farmers Rs 365b boost’

The domestic urea manufacturing plants have provided a benefit of Rs 365 billion to the farmers over the last five years, said the Fertilizer...

US helping small farm businesses increase profits

Alex Thier, assistant to the USAID Administrator, Wednesday, said that the US government had announced to help 45,000 farmers in the fruit, vegetable, dairy,...

Tobacco board slammed for exploiting farmers

Anjuman-e-Khasthkarn has demanded of the government to take action against the Tobacco Board because tobacco companies with the connivance of Tobacco Board are not...

11 farmers end lives in India

Drought in Gujarat, western Indian state, has started taking its toll on farmers as 11 farmers in Saurashtra region alone have committed suicide in...