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Afghanistan with a favourable climate conditions for the olive production grows commercial olives in Nangarhar Valley Agricultural Corporation (NVAC) in around 1,800 hectares. The produced fruits in NVAC farms has been processed to obtain oil and pickle in the NVAC olive processing factory which was established in 1983 through the help the USSR and Italy. The final product i.e. olive oil and pickle is being sold in the domestic market. NVAC has 869 technical and administration staff, skilled and unskilled labours to manage the olive production, processing and other production affairs. NVAC partially gets the operation budget from the government to undertake the daily operations which can suffice for only 200-300 hectares’ olive farms.