Rawalpindi - Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR) and the Italian government would work together for promotion of olive farming in Pakistan, with an aim to first produce enough olive oil for domestic consumption and then for export to the other markets. This was ...

Being agriculture oriented country, Pakistan’s government should seriously work on this sector as it is the backbone of our economy. Industry is already shutting down, instead of expanding due to power shortages. Pakistan spends approximately $ 2bn on edible oil imports, despite being an ...

ISLAMABAD – Food containing olive oil can carry labels saying it may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, the government says, citing limited evidence from a dozen scientific studies about the benefits of monounsaturated fats. As long as people don’t increase the number of ...

ISLAMABAD  - As many as 1500 hectares of land would be brought under olive cultivation within next three years with an aim to exploit the potential in this particular sector and make the country self-sufficient in olive production.The three-year project has been launched under the debt swap ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) has started work on “Promotion of Olive Cultivation for Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation” project with the financial assistance of Italian government.Under this project, olive plants will be planted on ...

CHAKWAL Government has started olive plantationi with the help of Italian Govt. In this respect, Barani Agricultural Research Institute, Chakwal has started research and promotional work of olive in Punjab.  The plantation season of olive has been started in Punjab.Ahmad Ali Auolakh, Minister ...

BENGHAZI (AFP) - Libya’s Tawarga tribe apologised to Misrata’s people for damage caused in the coastal city during last year’s war, according to a statement received by AFP on Friday. “We the Tawarga tribes of Libya apologise to our brothers in Misrata for any action ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition parties cautiously accepted an offer of dialogue from President Hugo Chavez on Sunday but said the firebrand socialist leader had soon forgotten similar invitations in the past. Chavez proffered the olive branch during a typically lengthy speech to ...

In a bid to resolve its current impasse with Younus Khan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly sent a notice to the former captain asking him to contact the board. The PCB had earlier said that it would not select Younus in the national team until he contacts the board ...

ISLAMABAD - A team of Istituto Agronomico per IOltremare has completed its homework to identify the areas to grow olive trees in Pakistan. Italian investors were keen to invest in olive oil production in Pakistan, said Italian Ambassador Vincenzo Prati while talking to a group of journalists at his ...

Adding olive oil to one's daily diet could help keep breast cancer at bay. The findings show that the Mediterranean oil mounts a multi-pronged attack on the tumours, stunting their growth, driving their cells to implode and protecting against potentially-cancerous damage to DNA, reports ...

MQM and ANP leadership has agreed to launch concerted efforts to establish peace in Karachi. MQM Chief Altaf Hussain assured ANP supremo Asfandayra Wali Khan on phone of all-out support in this regard and condoled with him on the sad demise of Ajmal Khattak besides killings of ANP members and other ...

RESEARCHERS from the University of Granada and the University of Barcelona have shown that treatment with maslinic acid, a triterpenoid compound isolated from olive-skin pomace, results in a significant inhibition of cell proliferation and causes apoptotic death in colon-cancer cells. Maslinic acid ...

TAKING 1000mg of a specific olive leaf extract (EFLA(r)943) can lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension (high blood pressure). These findings came from a 'Twins' trial, in which different treatments were given to identical twins. By doing this, researchers ...