Olive Plants Being Provided To Enhance Olive Production

The provision of 2 million good quality and high yielding olive plants is underway to make Pothohar an olive valley.

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Aug, 2018 ) :The provision of 2 million good quality and high yielding olive plants is underway to make Pothohar an olive valley.

A spokesman of the Punjab Agriculture department said this here on Wednesday.

Under a five years government project which is aimed at the promotion of olive growth, growers of Chakwal, Jhelum, Attock, Rawalpindi, Mianwali and Khushab were being given olive plants free of cost, he added.

He said that under the project farmers were also being provided financial assistance upto 70 percent for tubewells while 60 percent financial support was being given to install drip irrigation system.

Landlords were also being given free technical training and recommendations, he maintained.

The spokesman said that interested farmers could submit their application till August 31 to get free of cost plants besides contacting on 0543-662001/662004 numbers to get information in this regard. Application forms could be downloaded from www.barichakwal.agripunjab.gov.pk and www.barichakwal.org,he added.