Sindh to begin 15 agri-schemes under new budget

Sindh Agriculture Department has proposed in the upcoming budget launching of 15 new schemes besides setting up of Benazir Bhutto Agriculture Services Centre for providing facilities to the growers. Provincial Agriculture Department has submitted its Rs2 billion development budget proposals for the year 2008-09 to the finance ministry, which included scheme for installing windmills for irrigation purposes, construction of 1500 new watercourses, training of women for picking of cotton and technical training for nursery of fruits and flowers amid other schemes. The proposal of setting up of Benazir Bhutto Agriculture Services Centre for providing one-window facility for the disbursement of loans, seeds, agricultural medicines, fertilizer etc. to the growers. 

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