Spokesman: (Punjab Agri Department launches date trees cultivation project in southern Punjab)

ISLAMABAD:Punjab Agriculture Department has launched a unique project of massive cultivation of date trees in southern Punjab at a cost of 78 million rupees.

Its objective is to transform southern Punjab into the “Date Palm Valley. A spokesman of Agriculture Department said that Pakistan is earning handsome foreign exchange annually by exporting dates.

He said under the project free plants have been distributed in the nine districts of Punjab.