ISLAMABAD – The Senate has been informed that efforts are underway to enhance the production of unconventional crop items including jute, olive and tea besides traditional crops of wheat, cotton and rice. Responding to questions in the House, Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal said successful experiments have been made for production of tea and olive.
A commercial tea production project through public private partnership is now in progress to cultivate tea at 4,200 acres of land in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir. Similarly he said incentives are being provided to the farmers to cultivate olive in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Balochistan.
