Olive Plantation in Pakistan

[Bilal.]

Our Type of Olive Tree gives at Top Prod around 8 years to 12 years.
As for cooking oil, Cooking with Olive Oil it's a bit "special" not that isn't good... But it will change the "taste" of your cooking... therefore Whatever is cooked WILL have a different taste, If Olive oil wasn't originally part of the dish...

So, first you will have to do a job to "Re-Educate" the population to get used tot he taste/ adapt the local dishes etc...

Yes, Having an interesting Olive oil production is an interesting project, but it has to be well though when it comes to consume it/export it... otherwise... They will end up as trees on the side road or fire wood...

My family have completely shifted to olive oil for cooking. It tastes fine, no difference.

 

[ghazi52]

With an increase in the area under cultivation, Pakistan is passing through a silent revolution of olive oil production.

The sector is rapidly moving the country towards self-reliance by introducing Pakistan’s national brand under the name of ‘PakOlive’ by 2021. The Pakistan Olive Oil Council will be established under the Ministry Of National Food Security and Research to suggest policy measures for the promotion of olive oil in the country. The government will also issue certifications for the marketing and branding of olive oil for the private sector.

“Certification is important as our local olive products can then become competitive in the international market,” said Dr Muhammad Tariq, national project director for the promotion of olive cultivation on a commercial scale in Pakistan. Furthermore, utilising marginal lands will help grow a cottage industry for olive products, he explained.

The project targets plantations of over 50,000 acres in the country by 2022. The available potential area for olive cultivation is about 10 million acres in Punjab, particularly the Pothwar region, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and erstwhile Fata, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan.


By 2024, the country will have about 3m fruit-bearing plants producing roughly 1,415 tonnes of oil with an estimated value of Rs4.416bn

Given its potential for growing olive plantations, Pothwar has been termed as an ‘olive valley’ where over 1.2 million olive plants are being grown on an area of 11,125 acres, engaging about 1,300 farmers. More than half the plants will start bearing fruit in 2019-20’s cropping period, producing 5,118 tonnes of olive oil. By 2024, the value of oil olive production will increase to Rs1.727 billion.

In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, over a million olive plants are being grown on an area of 9,391 acres engaging 768 farmers. The production of olive oil is estimated to reach the value of Rs1.458bn in 2024.

In Balochistan, over half a million plants are being grown over an area of over 9,391 acres and it is expected that by 2024, the value of oil will be Rs1.160bn.

In Islamabad Capital Territory and AJK, over 50,000 plants are being grown on an area of 455 acres of land engaging 228 farmers. The value of oil by 2024 is expected to be Rs71 million.

Thus, by 2024, the country will have about 3m fruit-bearing olive plants producing roughly 1,415 tonnes of olive oil with an estimated value of Rs4.416bn. The climate change ministry also plans to plant 1m olive plants.

Edible oil is an every-day use food item. Pakistan has been chronically deficient in its production. More than 80 per cent of the domestic requirements are met through imports. Since the early-1970s, its imports have increased at the rate of 12.5pc annually and the trend is worsening.

In 2017 alone, more than $3.2bn was spent on the import of oil, oil meal and oilseeds to meet domestic needs. Pakistan imported 3,000 tonnes of olive oil worth Rs1.241bn during 2017-18.

Dr Tariq explained that utilising marginal lands will help the cottage industry of olive products grow. Thus, livelihoods will be improved through employment generation opportunities created by olive value-chains developed in less-favoured regions of the country.

Olive forests resist drought and help absorb greenhouse gases when the capability of other trees decrease, making them more efficient in taking in carbon dioxide.

They also provide permanent crop cover that not only saves land from erosion and further degradation but also minimises silt load to downstream water reservoirs. Olive orchards require less water, fertilisers, pesticides and fuel energy as compared to other major annual oilseed crops.

Olive oil processing mills have been established by both public and private sectors in Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The largest processing mill has been set up in Chakwal and can extract 600kg of olive oil per hour.

In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, processing mills are operating in Tarnab (500kg per hour), Nowshera (500kg per hour), Sang Bhatti (500kg per hour), Swat (200kg per hour) and Bajaur (200kg per hour). In Balochistan, a 200kg per hour processing mill has been set up in the public sector in Loralai, and two by the private sector located in Khuzdar (200kg per hour) and Kila Saifullah (50kg per hour).

International linkages with the Madrid-based International Olive Council have also been established, and recently, Iran and Morocco have shown interest in collaborating with Pakistan in this sector.

Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, March 2nd, 2020

 

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[Old School]

I am fully on olive oil for the last 30 years. Olive tree can survive almost a thousand year. Let us do something about it. There is a great potential..

 

[Malik Alpha]

I cant imagine my life without Olives especially the green ones. Cant wait to try Pakistani Olives In Sha Allah

 

[American Pakistani]

Excellent work. Pakistan should aim at about 1 billion$ annual income from olive and olive oil exports.

 

[jupiter2007]

Turn KPK and Balochistan into Olive territory.

 

[ghazi52]

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[ghazi52]

Olives Gardens in Chakwal

Chakwal is the mini Spain of Pakistan. Spain, world largest #olive producer, has 2.4 m hectares while Pakistan has 3.5 m hectares suitable for olive. Italy introduced olive in Pakistan around 1986. Pakistan imports over $ 2 billion of edible oil per year.

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In Spain

 

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Olives Gardens in Chakwal

Chakwal is the mini Spain of Pakistan. Spain, world largest #olive producer, has 2.4 m hectares while Pakistan has 3.5 m hectares suitable for olive. Italy introduced olive in Pakistan around 1986. Pakistan imports over $ 2 billion of edible oil per year.

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Very excited to see this. Post more videos of farms please.

 

[ghazi52]

Very excited to see this. Post more videos of farms please.

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan to become clean, green through olive cultivation

ISLAMABAD -Pakistan will become clean and green through olive cultivation and processing in coming years. PSDP “Olive”, funded by the government of Pakistan, is playing a pivotal role in promoting olive, its oil processing and value addition.

In the this context, a seminar on “One day training programme on olive oil processing and value addition” was held at BARI Chakwal on 08/07/2020 under the aegis of PSDP Olive in which scientists and trainers from public and private sector trained the participants from different components across the country components including Punjab, KP, Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and AJK. The major focus of the training was to make participants abreast of technologies and machinery functions for export quality olive oil and to develop different recipes of olive for safe storage and delight.

 

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Olive cultivation in Pakistan

There is numerous doable for olive cultivation in Pakistan. The estimates have published that if eight million wild olive bushes present in numerous provinces are grafted and transformed into the productive olive then there is a possible of earning a most of 1 billion bucks yearly. Similarly, we may earn a most of nine billion dollars annually if olive cultivation is made on cultivable doable waste lands. The olive appears to had been native to Asia, being one of the crucial earliest timber cultivated via man. The trees belong to oleaceae circle of relatives and include 30 genera with 600 species. The plant is xerophitic upon species of tree the olea-europea or Europium olive.

Olive is an integral a part of the nutrition of the folk of the Mediterranean lands and is a source of fat in vitamin of those other folks. Olive oil is broadly used in nations the place fats are scarce. In Indo-Pak sub-continent a wild olive, olea cuspida is found throughout the northwest Himalayas and other adjacent hills however cultivated olive olea Europea is not grown anywhere on commercial scale. This plant is in the community referred to as Zytoon in Urdu, Showan in Pushtu, Khat in Brahavi and kow in Punjabi, Sindhi and Saraiki.

Pakistan isn’t a traditional olive-producing country however a wild subspecies of the olive tree known as Olea cuspidata does develop in different parts of the country. Since 1986 olive timber have been planted experimentally, starting with a venture funded by means of the Italian government. Another govt challenge to plant over five million olive vegetation used to be unsuccessful when just one percent of the saplings survived. However subsequent planting drives have borne fruit.




Significance of olive oil

The significance of olive oil has also been narrated several times within the Holy Quran. During the mid of final century;( round 1950s), various grafted olive plants of several varieties were imported and planted in Kashmir, Simla and Kangra hills at Harnai, Fort Sandeman (Zhob) in Balochistan, Peshawar, Swat (NWFP), Rawalpindi, Sargodha, and Jhelum (Punjab) districts.



120,000 olive trees are being planted in Pakistan’s

As part of a tree planting marketing campaign, 120,000 olive trees are being planted in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

Half of the new saplings to be planted had been grown in nurseries on-site whilst the rest had been imported from Italy. The olive plantation will quilt a complete house of 14,000 acres (five,665 hectares) in Balochistan, Pakistan’s greatest province on the subject of house, which is located within the south-west of the country.


History of Olive in Pakistan

Olive used to be offered first time in Pakistan by means of PARC right through 1986 beneath an Italian Project titled “Fruit, Vegetable and olive Project” funded by Government of Italy. After this project a common survey used to be conducted to estimate the choice of naturally befell wild olive specie “Olea Cuspidata” and found more than 80 Million wild Olive plants in different district of Pakistan. Under every other olive venture of federal government 5.five million olive crops have been most sensible worked however less than 1% plants survived in the results of top operating because of control of most sensible worked plants.


Current standing of the Project

The project “Promotion of Olive Cultivation for Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation” used to be awarded to government of Pakistan by the Italian govt below the Debt Swap Agreement. The project is in operation through PARC, s sturdy coordination device in KPK, Baluchistan, FATA and Punjab provinces. The intention of the project is to extend the local production of edible oils by way of cultivating olive specially to utilize culture-able waste lands in Punjab, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Baluchistan and FATA.

Main objectives of the olive promotional undertaking are to amplify the cultivation of olives in selected / recognized areas thru new plantation in Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and Potohar. To promote oil cultivation and use of olive oil. To arrange quite a few new olive processing amenities (four oil generators) entire with supporting infrastructures and kit. To stimulate PPP’s for long run control of newly established orchard and oil turbines to verify sustainability and to supply coaching, conduct technical research and supply help to farmers.


Importance of Olive

Olive is excellent supply of fit to be eaten oil and may be used for table objective particularly for pickles. The olive has no longer simplest nutritional and medicinal price but its fat content is also unfastened from ldl cholesterol. It is also used in meals preservation, textile industry and beauty preparation in conjunction with number of different functions. Olive oil is among the few widely used culinary oils that contain about 75% of its fats in the form of oleic acid (a monounsaturated, omega-nine fatty acid). Olive fruit because of its dietary and medicinal significance is a blessing of Almighty/Allah. Olive has been referred in noble method at many puts within the Holy Quran and its importance has been certified via many announcing of Holy Prophet.


Pakistan Agriculture and Research Council (PARC) and Olive

The recent olive tree planting force is a part of a marketing campaign launched via the Pakistan Agriculture and Research Council (PARC), an agricultural analysis group based in the capital Islamabad.

The undertaking is a part of ongoing efforts to become barren land into cultivable plots and advertise the province’s agricultural sector while introducing choice vegetation for local farmers. There are also plans to construct a brand new olive oil mill within the provincial capital Quetta.


Olive Cultivation projects in Pakistan

Gilgit-Baltistan

Meanwhile, in Pakistan’s northernmost area, the federal government of Gilgit-Baltistan has introduced plans to plant 3 million olive timber inside of a length of three months as a part of an environmental conservation mission. Parts of this area have experienced deforestation and damaging environmental effects like soil erosion, landslides and flash flooding. Under the supervision of the woodland and wildlife division, students of local schools and faculties are being inspired to participate in the force by planting olive trees.

Similar projects carried out in several provinces right through the rustic goal to advertise olive cultivation and building up the manufacturing of safe to eat oils. They have included coaching programs for local farmers in olive cultivation, processing and pest keep an eye on, and the setting up of oil extraction turbines.


Pothwar region: The Olive valley

The Pothwar region in the northeastern nook of the country is being developed into an “olive valley” after being recognized as a area appropriate for olive cultivation because of its topography and local weather. Under a present five-year project operating till 2020 and also managed by way of PARC, 2.four million olive trees are being planted there as a cash crop.

Olive oil is already produced in Pakistan along side quite a few other products on the market on the domestic marketplace like olive jam, chutney, pickles and olive-derived products like olive syrup, olive vinegar, olive chocolates and olive tea.

 

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