KARACHI: Chairman PPP and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari directed Sindh government to start disbursement of cash for seed to growers to grow Rabi crop across board within next 20 days.

“Flood/rain has already caused huge loss to growers and now they prepared their lands for Rabi crops, therefore they must be supported to meet requirement of their agricultural inputs,” he said presiding over meeting at CM House.

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, ministers, Manzoor Wassan, Sharjeel Memon, Saeed Ghani, Nasir Shah, Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Murtaza Wahab, Rasool Bux Chandio, Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput, Chairman P&D Hassan Naqvi, PSCM Fayaz Jatoi and secretaries of different department attended meeting. 

Bilawal was told that standing crops on an area of 3.6 million acres have been damaged in recent floods which caused Rs 421 billion loss to growers.  Murad Ali Shah said that to provide relief to farmers, it has been decided to provide free inputs to farmers. “As a first step, an exercise is underway to compensate farmers for wheat seed through cash transfers,” he said and added that Rs 5,000 would be given per acre.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 15 2022

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