Farmers, who have one to 12.5 acres of land, are eligible for Kissan cards, Agriculture Director Chaudhary Khalid Mehmood said on Tuesday.

In a statement, he said that the Punjab government had launched the Kissan card scheme to facilitate farmers with various incentives including loans and agriculture appliances.

Small farmers would be preferred for the scheme if they would have one acre to 12.5 acres of agricultural land, Mehmood said and added that the farmers should not be defaulters of any bank or monetary institution otherwise they would not be eligible for the facility.

He said that cardholder farmers would be facilitated to purchase quality seed and fertiliser up to Rs150,000 for one crop and the loan amount would be returned within six months without any interest.

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If they fail to return the loan within the stipulated time, they would be bound to deposit a 29% additional amount along with the actual amount of the loan, he added.

Photocopies of farmer’s CNIC, legal heir’s CNIC, land record Fard, Rs1,000 as fee and a bank account were mandatory before applying for the Kisan card, he added.