Aleppo-Sana
Olive presses in Aleppo continue to receive the crop from farmers and turn it into oil, where 15 presses in the governorate returned to work after rehabilitation and repair due to damage caused by terrorism out of 387 presses operating before the crisis.
SANA camera toured a number of olive presses in Manbej and Bab areas and met with their owners, where he explained the net owner of the press in the area of Madiouna that the olive is received from farmers and his age with a production capacity of 70 tons per day with commitment to technical and environmental conditions.
Faisal Ali Al-Essa, owner of a press in the Deir Qaq area of Al-Bab countryside, said that the production capacity of the press is 300 tons per day through two production lines where olives are being squeezed and oil is produced according to the required specifications. One part of the pyrene material is extracted from olive residue after being squeezed for heating molds and the other part is deported to Hasia industrial zone.
Mohammed Al Hamada, owner of the presses in Manbij countryside, talked about the facilities offered to the farmers during the receipt of olives and his era, where the production capacity of the press reaches 240 tons per day through two production lines, and the environmental conditions and prices set by the concerned departments were adhered to. Stages of the olive age in accordance with the technical conditions.
Al-Falah Mohammed Eid Al-Khalaf, from Maran village in Al-Bab countryside, said that every three and a half kilograms of olives give 1 kg of oil, Khaled Al-Ghandour said this season is abundant, while Hamza Haj Hamoud explained that the prices of the olive age are acceptable while Khader Hammoud pointed out that he paid 4% His harvest, an encouraging price compared to last year, exceeded 8 percent.
Engineer Mohammed Deco from the olive section of the Directorate of Agriculture of Aleppo that the cultivated areas of olives in the province amounted to 190 thousand and 420 hectares and the number of trees 23 million and 884 thousand fruitful trees of which 22 million and 800 thousand trees and distributed in the areas of Afrin, Azaz, Bab, Manbij and expanded recently to the east Aleppo and it is cultivated oil varieties, Sourani, Qaisi and Khalkhali.
He explained that a committee is formed annually to monitor the work of the contemporary directorates of agriculture, industry, environment, internal trade, consumer protection and water resources, where the field tours on the presses to monitor the progress of its work and remedy the imbalance if found through the warning of the owner of the press or close Squeezed oil.
Abdul Hamid Al-Hamad, supervisor of supply at the Directorate of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection, said that periodic visits are arranged on the presses, sampling of pyrene, monitoring of peat water and price regulations and the extent of adherence to them that violates non-adherents.
Qusai Razzouk