CHAKWAL City News

‘Olive to revolutionised agri sector’
From Our Correspondent
CHAKWAL: New Zealand Parliamentarian and agriculture scientist Dr Ashraf Chaudhry on Wednesday said that positive come out of olive saplings in the rain-fed area will bring an agriculture revolution in Pakistan.
He was addressing a ‘Meet the Press’ programme at the Chakwal Press Club on Wednesday. He said that more than Rs 250 billion was spent on the import of agriculture commodities from the foreign countries. He told that in the next three year, the Punjab government had planned to sow olive saplings in more than 100,000 acres land and this would be cultivated at barren and uneven land. Former Punjab Agriculture DG Dr Mushtaq Gill urged the local farmers to come forward and sow olive saplings in their land. Chakwal Chamber of Commerce & Industry president Qazi Muhammad Akbar and others were also present. Earlier, Dr Ashraf along with the office-bearers of the press club visited Barani Institute at Thoa Bahadur where Director Dr Muhammad Tariq briefed them about the latest situation of olive saplings.