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SIALKOT, Jul 11 (APP):Like the entire province, the process of paying Rs. 5,000 per acre weight support price to farmers has started in Sialkot district on the instructions of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif and 1192 farmers across the district will benefit from this facility.
Acting Deputy Director of Agriculture Sialkot Sajjad Haider said this while visiting the Kissan Sahulat Centres where he reviewed distribution of assistance money among farmers. Acting Deputy Director of Agriculture Sialkot Sajjad Haider said that on the instructions of CM Maryam Nawaz, farmers who do not have Kisan Cards are also being given a weighted support price of Rs. 5,000 per acre. He said the amount is being distributed to farmers through bank pay orders who do not have cards, while the Facilitation Centres are established in the offices of Assistant Director of Agriculture at the tehsil level. He said that the relief money is being given to farmers with an area of 12 acres or less.
Sajjad Haider said that the farmers who received the relief money had applied for this money on the online portal and the distribution of the money has started after the formal verification of the Revenue Department.