Agriculture Department Punjab under special directives of Chief Minister has started a project for five years worth Rs 780 million to promote high value varieties of dates and seedless kinnow in Punjab. According to implementation status of this program, Agriculture Department will provide free of cost high value varieties of Date plants (Ajwa, Barhee, Amber, Khulas and Midjaul) to the farmers belonging to 9 districts of South Punjab ie, Bahawalpur, Multan, Jhang, Rahim Yar Khan, DG Khan, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Bhakkar, and Rajanpur whereas seedless Kinnow plants will be provided in farmers belonging to district Sargodha, Toba Tek Singh, Mandi Bahauddin, Sahiwal, Vehari and Layyah on subsidized rates.
Farmers can apply for this subsidy scheme. Interested farmers can get application forms free of cost from office of Deputy Director Agriculture (Ext) of their districts or can download it from official website of Agriculture Department (www.agripunjab.gov.pk).
Spokesman of the department disclosed that interested people for this subsidy scheme has to abide by all the conditions written on application form in this regard.
For getting date plants, farmers will have to submit their application forms either by hand or through courier to the office of Director, Horticultural Research Station, Bahawalpur and for seedless Kinnow plants farmers must submit their application form to office of Director, Citrus Research Institute, Sargodha till 20th February, 2018.