LAHORE: Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi said on Monday that despite coronavirus pandemic, the Punjab government had presented a balanced and people friendly budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. Commenting on provincial budget, he said that maximum incentives and facilities were being provided to farmers to enhance agriculture yield. He said the Punjab government declaring agriculture among its priorities had allocated Rs 31.5 billion for strengthening of this sector. Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi said that handsome allocations had been made to increase agriculture production through irrigation, for transformation of agriculture, for setting up of model markets, for the provision of subsidy on agriculture inputs and for proper management of water courses. The Minister said that yield of various crops including wheat, rice and others increased which was a proof of government’s commitment to uplift agriculture sector.