KARACHI: Pakistan is becoming clean and green through olive cultivation & 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 Wednesday under the auspicious 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.

The participants were quite satisfied with the context of training with a solemn hope of reducing country's import bill in the lieu oil import and making olive a success story.-PR

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