The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) has been working in the northern mountain ranges including Gilgit, Baltistan and Chitral region since 1982. The program focused on hand holding of rural communities by improving their livelihood on sustainable and equitable basis. Improvement in rural agriculture has been one of the significant activities of the AKRSP program for the last more than two decades. During initial fifteen years the AKRSP agriculture section supplied thousands of improved variety fruit trees to the poor farmers on subsidy to motivate them to improve their horticulture productivity. Since climatic conditions are favorable for production of deciduous fruits including; cherry, apples, pears, apricots and a variety of nuts such as walnuts, pine nuts and apricot kernels therefore farmers have planted more fruits to enhance productivity to commercial scale. Planting fruit trees was not a new motivation for the farmers rather hundred of thousand of fruits trees mainly apricots, walnuts and mulberries were planted since the settlement of people in the northern areas.