Punjab CM assures to compensate farmers for damages caused by rains

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Friday assured to compensate farmers for overcoming damages caused to crops due to recent rains and hailstorm in the province, ARY News reported.

Usman Buzdar said this in a meeting with Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser at his office in Lahore.

During the meeting, various matters of mutual interest, including wheat procurement campaign and the steps taken for overcoming damages caused to crops came under discussion.

The chief minister assured of giving relief to farmers to compensate for the damages caused to crops and added that the survey was being done to assess damages in the province. The Board of Revenue and the Provincial Disaster Management Association (PDMA) had been issued instructions in this regard, he said.

“The farmers would be compensated after the survey report,” he said.

CM Buzdar said that farmers would be given a full reward of their hard work during the wheat procurement campaign and every grain of wheat would be purchased from them.

He said that Rs130 billion had been allocated during the current season for the purchase of wheat and wheat procurement target would be increased if needed.

“I am with farmers and they will live an honorable life in the ‘New Pakistan’”, the chief minister concluded.

Asad Qaiser thanked the CM for initiating different steps, including survey for assessing damages of the farmers. The Punjab government had also made the best arrangements of wheat procurement, he said. Interests of farmers would be protected because of the steps taken by the Punjab government, he added.