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Olive production varies this year from one field to another in a town, and from one town to another, and this year’s campaign is considered the average production in general. When farmers rolled up their sleeves and began harvesting for the olive season, a plate of oil sold for 500-600,000 pounds, an increase of 300,000 pounds over last year’s season, and the reason is the high cost of agriculture, labor for harvesting, fertilizers, pressing and all the requirements of this crop. In addition, a kilo of olives were sold between 10,000 and 15,000, while the fires caused heavy losses to farmers whose trees were burned in Yohmar Al-Shaqif, Zawtar, Wadi Al-Hujair, Aita Al-Shaab and several border villages.
In this context, the vice president of the General Union of Lebanese Workers, Ing. Hassan Fakih, said, in an interview with Al-Nashra, that “the cultivation of the olive tree in the south is very productive and is planted by the Phoenicians in Qana, Wadi al-Hujair, the plain and places of Gora Others, which are evergreen trees that are over a thousand years old, and the inhabitants of the south depend on the production of olive trees in their annual seasons, especially in the regions of Marjayoun, Hasbaya and Bint Jbeil . The harsh environment, the thirst and the rain. “
Fakih noted that “the olive tree is blessed in the Noble Quran and in the Holy Bible, and today the southern governorates and Nabatiyeh account for 40 percent of the total land planted with this tree in Lebanon, equivalent to approximately 6 million trees. of which are produced for the production of fine oil “. Including soap and table making. “
Fakih explained that “olives pay a big bill as a result of the construction attack on cultivated areas”, adding: “Olive cultivation is distributed in the south as follows: in Hasbaya 29 thousand dunums, in Marjayoun 31 thousand dunums, in Bint Jbeil 26 thousand dunums, in Nabatiyeh 29 thousand dunums, and unfortunately people are giving up this crop to more economically viable crops. “
Fakih asked the state to further improve its agricultural presence, and we hope that the plan of the Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Mortada Al-Nour, will see, especially because it gives a promising space for olives, citrus fruits and bananas because the agricultural cycle is an integrated cycle.
Al-Nashra had interviews with olive growers, as Muhammad Yaghi from the city of Zawtar explained: “This year’s season is not the same as last year, and the production is average, but the labor prices they are high, reaching 50 thousand per person “. “The price of squeezing out every kilogram of oil has risen to 3,000 pounds, and a gallon has become the price of 25,000, after 5,000 pounds last year, so how can a farmer weather the price storm? high? “
Nasra Muhammad from the village of Arnon said that “the oil plate was sold in the press for 500 thousand pounds, and what we produce goes between the prices of harvesting and pressing and transporting the olives to it.” 15 thousand according to its color, between green and black “.
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