Olives, Pakistan s best bet to cut down edible oil import bill
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Nine olive extraction plants installed under PSDP
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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – More than nine advanced oil extraction plants have been installed to harness the increasing olive oil production on commercial scale for farmers.
The oil extraction units were installed under Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) to promote olive cultivation to reduce reliance on imported edible oil for catering domestic requirements, said Dr Ahmad Tariq.
He said out of these nine plants, three have the capacity of 600 kg per hour extraction and six units have capacity of 100 kg.
All the basic accessories like harvesting baskets, oil analyzer for quality analysis, filling, capping sealing machine and olive oil storage containers had been installed within these machines, he added.