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Pakistan expands olive cultivation to cut $4 billion edible oil import bill

  • Olive tree count rises from about half a million in 2016 to nearly seven million today Officials see import substitution within four years, exporters eye billion-dollar market
  • Olive tree count rises from about half a million in 2016 to nearly seven million today Officials see import substitution within four years, exporters eye billion-dollar market

By Waseem Abbasi · 5 September 2026

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