olive harvest starts in many Syrian governorates with an estimates of 25% increase

Economy & Aftermath

The olive harvest season has started in most of the Syrian governorates except Idlib and Aleppo, where the harvest is scheduled for the beginning 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 that the harvest process and oil pressing are proceeding normally.

Eng. Habo pointed to the tightening of control procedures on the oil pressers work through the formation of a central committee and sub-committees in the governorate in order to follow up work mechanism.

The engineer said that production this season has increased by 25% compared to last season and is estimated at 830 thousand tons of olives and 150 thousand tons of oil compared to 700 thousand tons of olives and 120 thousand tons of oil last season. Thanks to the defeat of terrorism and the return of security and safety to a large number of agricultural land, which enabled farmers to pay attention to their fields. He expected that production will continue to increase during the coming seasons.

The harvest of olives began in Lattakia early this month and on the 15th of this month in Tartous, while in Hama, Hasaka, Homs, Damascus countryside, Sweida, Raqqa and Daraa began on 20th  of this month and is scheduled to be completed in the beginning of November in the northern regions, Habo added.

He stated that the government attached great attention to olive crop in all its agricultural, production and marketing stages, stressing that production exceeds the domestic consumption needs.  Thanks to the characteristics of Syrian oil such as color and taste,  the quantities exported to foreign markets will increase, Hamo said, pointing out that the export of more than 30 thousand tons of olive oil to 33 countries in 2018.

Inas Abdulkareem

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