Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Olive cultivation on commercial scale was initiated in Pakistan through Italian funded project back in 2012. Following the encouraging results, Government of Pakistan launched a PSDP- funded project “Promotion of Olive Cultivation on commercial scale in Pakistan” during 2014.
According to an estimate about 2.90 million plants on 25,600 acres has been planted so far under various projects. Olive Fruit is being harvested in considerable quantity in Pakistan and it is the need of hour to provide olive processing units in major olive growing region to facilitate the farmers at their doorstep and to ensure that economic benefits of the olive cultivation can directly be passed to the farmer.
