Our Correspondent Islamabad
National Productivity Organization (NPO) that plays an active role in enhancing productivity and improved competitiveness has announced to support the government initiative of strengthening the business of olive industry across the country.
The key aims of the initiative of the government which particularly aim for controlling soil erosion in parched lands, promoting soil conservation, increasing tree cover in drought-hit and most prominently to boost production of olive on local basis to offset local climate change impacts as well as reduce burden of edible oil import bill on the National exchequer.
NPO after doing its detail work on involving expert from the APO member countries who could help in identifying the value chain gaps of the low productivity and therefore especially prioritized to involve the expert from turkey which is known for the best olive cultivation across the globe as the industrial Sector in Pakistan are getting uncompetitive and to give support to the import influx value chain involvement of the foreign expert and best practices carried out in the Asia Pacific region is call of the day.