Estimates of an increase of about 25 percent

Damascus-Sana

The olive harvest season has started in most of the Syrian governorates except for Idlib and Aleppo provinces, where the harvest is scheduled for the first of next month.

Engineer Mohamed Habou, director of the olive office in the Ministry of Agriculture, told SANA Economic Bulletin that the general situation of fruits and oil is good and the harvesting process and the oil age are proceeding normally, pointing to the tightening of control procedures on the contemporary work through the formation of a central committee and sub-committees in the province. Conditions and compliance with the deportation of the remnants of the era of Argon and peat water.

He pointed to the increase in production this season by about 25 percent compared to last season, estimated production of 830 thousand tons of olives and 150 thousand tons of oil compared to about 700 thousand tons of olives and 120 thousand tons of oil last season, after the defeat of terrorism and the return of security and safety to a large number of Agricultural land has enabled farmers to pay attention to their fields, expecting that production will continue to increase during the coming seasons.

Habo explained that the harvest of olives began in Lattakia early this month and on the fifteenth of it in Tartous, while in Hama, Hasaka, Homs, Damascus countryside, Sweida, Raqqa and Daraa on 20 of it to be completed in the beginning of November in the northern regions.

He added that the olive crop has been given great attention by the government in all its agricultural, production and marketing stages, stressing that production exceeds the need for domestic consumption and can benefit from the characteristics of Syrian oil such as color and taste to increase the quantities exported to foreign markets, pointing to the export of more than 30 thousand tons of olive oil To 33 countries in 2018.

Nadim Mualla

SANA Economic Bulletin