{"id":12729,"date":"2016-09-28T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=12729"},"modified":"2016-09-28T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:17:04","slug":"govt-providing-all-possible-assistance-for-farmers-rashid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2016\/09\/govt-providing-all-possible-assistance-for-farmers-rashid\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt providing all possible assistance for farmers: Rashid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-12729-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"557\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/information.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/information.flv\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/information.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (APP) Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid says the<br \/>\ngovernment is taking practical steps to\u00a0 address the challenges faced<br \/>\nby the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to media outside the parliament house in Islamabad on<br \/>\nWednesday evening, he said a relief package worth three hundred and<br \/>\nforty one billion rupees has been announced for the uplift of this<br \/>\nsector.He said subsidy has been provided to the farmers in<br \/>\nelectricity, fertilizers and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Information Minister said that in 2013 the rate of Urea fertilizer was<br \/>\n2050 rupees per bag and now the rate is 1400 rupees. Similarly DAP<br \/>\nprice in 2013 was 3900 rupees and now its price is 2650 rupees. He<br \/>\nsaid per unit price of electricity for tube wells in 2013 was 10<br \/>\nrupees and 50 paisa but now this is 5 rupees 50 paisa today. He said<br \/>\n127 billion rupees subsidy has been given on electricity to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Minister said that the Prime Minister has announced to<br \/>\ngrant five thousand rupees to the growers of rice and cotton having<br \/>\nholding less than 12.5 acres. He said the federal and the provincial<br \/>\ngovernments will share this amount at fifty fifty ratio.Information<br \/>\nMinister said the federal and Punjab governments have paid this amount<br \/>\nwhile Sindh government has not provided this assistance to the farmers<br \/>\nso far.<\/p>\n<p>Pervaiz Rashid said Pakistan People\u2019s Party and Pakistan<br \/>\nTehreek-e-Insaf want to disrupt the agenda of progress and development<br \/>\nof the government but they will fail in their designs.<\/p>\n<p>APP\/Nad\/ VNS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (APP) Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid says the government is taking practical steps to\u00a0 address the challenges faced by the agriculture sector. Talking to media outside the parliament house in Islamabad on Wednesday evening, he said a relief package worth three hundred and forty one billion rupees has been announced for the uplift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/information.flv"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/3-14.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12736,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions\/12736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}