The Punjab government has decided to provide free seeds and fertilizer to the flood-affected farmers from Rabi season, it is learnt.
Officials said that the recent torrential rains and floods have devastated at least 5 million acres of agriculture land and ready crops.
“Farmers have lost their crops including wheat, rice, sugarcane and vegetables in the floods and now they are passing through the worst phase of their lives,” said an agriculture ministry official.
“The fate of farmers is in jeopardy and that is why the government would provide free seeds and fertilizer to farmers for Rabi season,” he explained.
The flooding has made more than four million homeless while some eight million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
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