Free stone picker machine service for tribal area farms.

DERA GHAZI KHAN -- The inauguration of a project to make rocky land cultivable through the provision of stone picker machines free of cost to farmers will retrieve hundreds of acres, South Punjab Agriculture Secretary Saqib Ali told Dawn on Wednesday.

The machines will be manufactured through reverse engineering.

The secretary inaugurated the project by operating a stone picker machine.

With the completion of the project, farmers will be able to get good yields. Up to 200 farmers from the tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan were selected through a lucky draw system to purge their land of stones. A stone picker machine will run for 10 hours on each farmer's land.

He said that in future, reverse engineering would be used in picker machines at the Agricultural Mechanisation Research Institute, Multan, so that the prices of these machines can be significantly reduced.

Divisional Engineer Nadeem Iqbal said two such machines worth Rs30 million would allocated to tribal areas.

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