{"id":56530,"date":"2019-10-20T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56530"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:37:12","slug":"drought-hit-areas-to-be-planted-with-olive-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drought-hit-areas-to-be-planted-with-olive-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"Drought-hit areas to be planted with olive trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change announced that a large-scale olive trees plantation programme is on the cards for the areas suffering from water shortages, droughts and plunging groundwater levels, according to the news sources.<\/p>\n<p>The forestry officials of the climate change ministry have been directed to formulate an efficient plan to cultivate 50 million olive trees, as part of the 10-billion-tree Tsunami initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fruit-bearing-saplings-planted-mai-kolachi-bypass.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fruit-bearing saplings planted along Mai Kolachi Bypass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per the media reports, this campaign will be executed with consultation from provincial and federal stakeholders on a priority basis, with special focus on small farmers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-olive-cultivation-efforts-to-be-boosted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drought-tolerant olive sapling<\/a>s will be planted in the drought-affected areas like Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh. The plantation drive will be boosted with construction of rainwater harvesting storage ponds in these areas, and efficient irrigation practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/thar-foundation-provide-100000-saplings-plantation-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thar Foundation to provide 100,000 saplings for plantation campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The campaign is expected to not only help with the water solution but also control soil erosion, promote soil conservation, increase green cover, counteract climate change and reduce edible oil import through local organic produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change announced that a large-scale olive trees plantation programme is on the cards for the areas suffering from water shortages, droughts and plunging groundwater levels, according to the news sources. The forestry officials of the climate change ministry have been directed to formulate an efficient plan to cultivate 50 million olive trees, as part of the 10-billion-tree Tsunami initiative. Read:\u00a0Fruit-bearing saplings planted along Mai Kolachi Bypass As per the media reports, this campaign will be executed with consultation from provincial and federal stakeholders on a priority basis, with special focus on small farmers. The drought-tolerant olive saplings will be planted in the drought-affected areas like Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh. The plantation drive will be boosted with construction of rainwater harvesting storage ponds in these areas, and efficient irrigation practices. Read:\u00a0Thar Foundation to provide 100,000 saplings for plantation campaign The campaign is expected to not only help with the water solution but also control soil erosion, promote soil conservation, increase green cover, counteract climate change and reduce edible oil import through local organic produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":48132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[13511],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-details-on-drought-hit-areas-to-be-planted-with-olive-trees","9":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drought-hit areas to be planted with olive trees - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change announced that a large-scale olive trees plantation programme is on the cards for the areas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drought-hit-areas-to-be-planted-with-olive-trees.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drought-hit areas to be planted with olive trees - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change announced that a large-scale olive trees plantation programme is on the cards for the areas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drought-hit-areas-to-be-planted-with-olive-trees.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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