1m farmers registered for Kissan Card scheme

LAHORE: One million farmers have so far been registered for the CM Punjab Kissan Card scheme.

This was disclosed at a meeting held here on Friday with Agriculture Minister Ashiq Kirmani in the chair.

The sitting was told that the Bank of Punjab has confirmed after scrutiny more than 0.334 million farmers for getting the Kissan Card, while 82,000 of them have collected their respective cards. At least 136 delivery centres have been established at the tehsil level for the provision of the cards.