LAHORE: The Punjab Agriculture Department will start accepting applications for the second phase of the Green Tractor scheme in August. This was shared during a meeting chaired by Punjab Agriculture Minister Ashiq Hussain Kirmani.
Under the scheme, 10,000 locally made tractors with 50 to 65 horsepower will be provided with a subsidy of Rs500,000 each. Another 10,000 tractors with 75 horsepower or above—including both local and imported models—will be offered with a subsidy of Rs1 million each.
During the meeting, it was also informed that 98 percent of the construction work on four Model Agriculture Malls has been completed. In the next phase, 10 more such malls will be set up to support farmers and agricultural services.
In addition, the department will hire 2,000 more graduates in the second phase of the Agriculture Graduates Internship Programme to help improve agricultural practices and provide job opportunities.
Earlier, in May 2025, Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif launched a historic scheme to support wheat farmers. For the first time in Punjab’s history, 1,000 free tractors were distributed along with a cash grant of Rs5,000 per acre.
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The chief minister distributed the tractors and cash grants in a ceremony at the Rice Research Institute Kala Shah Kaku. She handed over the first tractor key to a farmer, Muhammad Akmal, and gave a tractor model and key to a female farmer, Tahira Nasreen. In return, a female farmer presented a shawl to the chief minister.
CM Maryam Nawaz also gave cash grants of Rs50,000 to farmer Haroon Bhatti, Rs40,000 to Muhammad Akram, Rs35,000 to Ghulam Sabir, and Rs30,000 to Muhammad Nawaz.
She inspected 75 tractors and other agricultural equipment worth Rs300 million gifted by China. These included 12 new Chinese tractors and modern machinery like Rotavator, Rotary Tiller Fertilizer Seeder, Corn Harvester, Cultivator, Tree Trimmer, and Crawler Type Wet Rice Combine Harvester.
She also viewed advanced systems like Hoses Sprinkler and Photovoltaic Water Pumping System and was briefed on eco-friendly technology for rice farming. Provincial Minister Ashiq Kirmani shared details about the Wheat Support Programme being implemented across Punjab.
