Palai is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of

Malakand District Malakand District ( ps, ملاکنډ ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The District was formed in 1970 as a Provincially Administered Tribal Area, It had previously been a tri ...

in the

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province of

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. It is renowned for its blood-red oranges due to the rich and well-drained soil found there. Palai is also said to be the birthplace of Pushto folktale characters

Adam Khan and Durkhani ''Adam Khan and Durkhani'' is a classic Pashtun romance which has been called the Pashto ''Romeo and Juliet'' along with '' Yusuf Khan and Sherbano''. Adam Khan hailed from Bazadara Bala (a village in Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Durkhan ...

Villages

Palai Dara includes the villages Ziarat, Zormadai, Sher Khana, Koza Bazdara,Mora Banda and Bara Bazdara. Adam Khan was born in Koza Bazdara, while Durkhani hailed from Bara Bazdara. Palai Dara has produced several poets including Anwar Hussain Zarin, Khaliq Dad Omeed, and Asfandyar Zia.

Orchards

Palai and its surrounding villages in the Malakand district are famous for their fine-quality produce. This includes fruits such as peaches, guavas, and the Palai red

blood oranges The Blood Oranges were an American alternative country band that formed in the late 1980s. The founding members were Jim Ryan (acoustic and electric mandolin, guitar, and vocals), Bob Kendall (bass guitar) then replaced by Liz Wood (later Liz ...

amongst many other citrus fruits. The area is home to approximately 171,000 fruit-bearing trees; playing a vital role in the purification of the air and acting as a habitat to countless species of both flora and fauna. Besides that, the orchards of the area attract tens of thousands of bees during the flowering season every year, serving as a homestead to the honey-making business. In the past few years, the area has observed an exponential increase in the number of trees and orchards, because of the government's arrangement of the water canal. The construction of

Swat Expressway The Swat Motorway ( ur, , ps, سوات بزرگراه ), also known as the M-16 or Swat Expressway, is a four-lane motorway and provincial controlled-access highway in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Phase-1 of the project, comp ...

(especially Palai Interchange) is supposed to take the area's agriculture and

apiculture Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made beehives. Honey bees in the genus '' Apis'' are the most-commonly-kept species but other honey-producing bees such as ''Melipona'' stingless bees are also kept. ...

industries to a whole new level because, for the first time in history, the producers will get an opportunity to showcase their products in bigger markets; both nationally and internationally.

References

External links

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower DirUnited NationsHajjinfo.org Uploads
Malakand District Populated places in Malakand District Union councils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Union Councils of Malakand District {{Malakand-geo-stub

Villages

Orchards

See also

References

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