TEHRAN--The assistant director of financial and programming sector of Ardebil province said that two billion and 500 million rials loan is to be paid To the experts and scholars for farming and agricultural study courses.

Esfandiar Mobtaker-Soraii told IRNA on Sunday that for every scholar who has an acceptable project, ten to two hundred million rials will be specified.

He added that forty billion rials had been paid to the agricultural sector in the previous year.

Mobtaker-Saraii also said, in the current year seventy billion rials in credit have been allocated for this sector in the province.