One hundred laser land levelers would be provided to the farmers of Faisalabad district in the next phase with the subsidy of Rs 22.50 million. In this connection balloting of the farmer's applications was held at DC Office in which Deputy Commissioner Salman Ghani was the chief guest and carried out the draw of 100 applications out of 202 eligible applicants.
Deputy Commissioner Salman Ghani greeted the lucky farmers of the balloting and hoped that the farmers would bring revolution in cultivation by using scientific and modern technology. He said that Punjab government is following a number of policies for the welfare and betterment of the small farmers as the agriculture is the back bone of the national economy.
He said that district administration would mobilize all out resources to provide technical guidance and support to the farmers for increasing the crop yield. He advised the farmers to utilize the laser land levelers for increasing agriculture production for their own prosperity and supporting other farmers too.
Deputy Director Water Management Dr Muhammad Asif informed that the irrigation water could be saved by leveling the agriculture land with laser land levelers which would ultimately help increase the agriculture production. He informed 480 laser land levelers had already been provided to the farmers. He said that all the process of receiving, scrutinizing and balloting of the applications for laser land levelers had been made transparent. He informed that under the directions of Punjab government the applications were invited from the small farmers.
The local Water Management department invited applications from the farmers in order to provide them laser land levelers on subsidized prices and balloting was carried out for 202 eligible applicants. He added that the Punjab government would provide subsidy of Rs 225, 000 on each laser land leveler out of its total price of Rs 450, 000. The laser land levelers allocated for Faisalabad district had been distributed on tehsil level as per cultivated areas.