PROJECT NAME
PROMOTION OF OLIVE CULTIVATION ON COMMERCIAL SCALE IN PAKISTAN
PROJECT DIRECTOR NAME
Contact No:
Email:
LOCATION
National Agriculture Research Centre (NARC)
Barani Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), Agriculture Department, Government of the Punjab
ARI, Tarnab, Peshawar, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries & Cooperative Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
National Tea and High-value Crop Res. Institute, Shinkiari, Mansehra, KP
ARI, Quetta, Agriculture and Cooperative Department Government of Baluchistan
BARDC, Quetta, Balochistan
AJ&K
MARK, Juglot, GB
PODB, ICT, Islamabad
SPONSORING AGENCY
Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Islamabad
EXECUTING AGENCY
Pakistan Oilseed Development Board (PODB)
ORIGINAL COST
Rs. 2444.545 million
SCOPE
- Plantation of olive plants on 50,000 acres
- To develop infrastructure/capacity for mass-scale production of true to type, disease free olive nursery plants in public and private sector
- Provision of olive plants to farmers through import and indigenous production
- Human resource development through training on olive culture involving youth and gender
- Provision of oil extraction units and value addition equipment to facilitate processing
- Mother orchards development for bud wood provision
- Plantation of olive plants on 3.351 acres has been completed. 560 farmers get benefited.
- 16 trainings have been organized under the project for capacity building of olive stakeholders during the reporting period
- 0.124 million cuttings were planted during the current year till December 2020
- Drip irrigation systems have been installed on 342 acres on public and private olive orchards remaining in progress
- 07 adaptability trials have been planted
The project shall pave way for large scale olive cultivation in the country reducing edible oil import, earning foreign exchange and safety of land and environmental degradation. Generation of employment and entrepreneurship.
PROJECT DETAILS
| Date of approval with Forum | ||
| Original date | Revised Date, if any | All subsequent Revisions if any |
| CDWP: 19-11-2014 | CDWP: 06-08-2019 (administrative approval) |
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| Financial Arrangement | Federal Government, PSDP (Public Sector Development Program) | |
| Donor (if any)along with a share of foreign aid in the cost | N/A | |
| Actual Date of Commencement | 09-03-2015 | |
| Completion Date (as per PC-I) | 30-06-2022 | |
| Likely Completion Date | 30-06-2022 | |
| Reason of Time and Cost Overrun | N/A | |
| Specific decision/ recommendation made during previous quarterly reviews of PSDP 2019-20 | The Chair directed M/o NFS&R to develop a mechanism for value addition and develop strong link with the relevant stakeholders. M/o NFS&R was also directed to establish link with SMEDA and Kamyab Jawan Program by facilitating to give loan on concessional basis | |
| PMES system updated on (please specify date) | 16/10/2020 | |
| Financial progress | ||
| a) Expenditure up to June 2020 | Rs.778.462 | |
| b) %age Financial progress to-Date | 40.98 % (Allocation) | |
| Physical completion (in %age terms) | 49% | |
| Allocation 2020-21 | Rupee | Foreign loan(if any) |
| Rs.500.00 | Nil | |
| Releases 2020-21 | Rupee | Foreign Loan(if any) |
| Rs.438.747 | Nil | |
| Expenditure/Utilization 2020-21 (July-Sept 2020) | Rupee | Foreign loan(if any) |
| Rs.192.8 (44 %) | Nil | |
| Bottlenecks/Issues impeding progress on the project (if any) |
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| Latest implementation status of the decision/recommendation | Linkages have been developed for value addition (olive pickle, olive leaf tea & oil processing, packaging and branding) like Unique value, Izhar farms Pvt. Ltd. & PARC Agrotech Company Pvt. Ltd. Moreover capacity building for value added products of olive are also being undertaken. | |