NTHRI Shankiyari imports Olive oil extraction plant.

MANSEHRA -- National Tea and High Value Crops Research Institute (NTHRI), Shinkiari, Mansehra Saturday has imported an extra virgin olive extraction plant to produce world-class olive oil which would start work in October 2020.

The extraction plant has been imported from Italy with a total cost of Rs 64 million rupees with the facilities of analyzer through which the quality and international standard of the Olive oil can be identified, fruit de-leafing, washing system, crushing mill and transfer pump.

Principal Scientific Officer NTHRI Shams ul Islam Khan told to media that the plant has a capacity of 100-kilogram oil extraction per hour and initially it would be provided free of cost to the farmers.

While giving the details of import of extraction plant Shams ul Islam Khan said that to...