ISLAMABAD – The government has announced a Rs5,000 per acre subsidy forsunflower farmers to meet the growing demand of edible oil in the country.
Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Nauman Ahmed Langrial, while presidingover a seminar on the topic of profitable cultivation of sunflower, saidthat the province was facing a challenge to meet the requirements of edibleoil for its inhabitants.
The minister noted that the farmers also seem reluctant to sow sunflowerdue to water scarcity. He informed that the country’s annual sunflowerproduction was only 12pc and the government was annually spending a massiveamount to import about 88pc of the edible oil.
“The subsidy would encourage the cultivation of edible oil in the country,”he added.
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