Potohar region declared “Olive Valley”, project approved

Rawalpindi: The Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) has formally approved “Olive Valley” for the Potohar region, reported a news source. A pilot project in this regard was launched back in 2017, which turned out to be more successful than anticipated as the olive trees planted back then yielded record production. This lead to PAD officially declaring Potohar region as Olive Valley.

The Agriculture Department has now decided to hire two project directors and two deputy directors for it. Under this project, 500,000 olive trees will be planted in the next year and the count will be made to reach 1 million in the next.

So far, nine million olive trees have already been planted in the Potohar region, which comprises Chakwal, Khushab, Jhelum, and other districts. For the extraction of olives, a factory was also set up at Barani Agriculture Research Institute in Chakwal.