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Guarantees, olive tree owners and farmers from towns east of Sidon and its surroundings complain about the shortage of the olive season, in addition to the high price of the oil deposit in the face of the high prices that afflict all the products, how about the olives and their oil!
Although it is a local product, several factors raised the price of the oil tank this year, which has been between 400 and 600 thousand pounds at a time when its price last year ranged between 150 and 200 thousand pounds, and between these factors is the high price of fertilizers. Farm machinery was bought in dollars, while the wages of workers and the farm “tractor” doubled, down to the cost of squeezing the olives. As for the fill gallons, they were selling for 16,000 pounds after the price before the dollar rose ranged from 4,000 to 8,000 pounds.
Jesus
Saeed Issa, a farmer who invests in a plot of olive trees near the town of Al-Baramia, east of Sidon, says it is not surprising that the price of the olive oil deposit is between 400,000 and 500,000 pounds . A loss for us, and there are many farmers who preferred not to invest this year due to the percentage of losses that may befall them. In addition, there are fertilizers that we buy in dollars and are not subsidized. The season is scarce this year in addition to the weather factor.
He continued: We do not forget the issue of the recent fires, which destroyed areas of olive trees in the vicinity of Sidon and the south in general, and of course, the smaller the harvest of the season, the higher its price.
Khouri
Jan Khoury, owner of olive groves in the town of Maghdouche, says that the demand for olive oil decreased this year after the increase in the price of the can, which ranged between 550,000 and 600,000. For example, people who used to buy two dyes a year now buy a tank and who used to buy Hoy, a tank buys half the can, and more than that, there are families who share the purchase of the can. The price is hard for a citizen with a decline in their purchasing power, but we are forced to do it with the high price of the dollar and the cost of the materials that go into the cultivation and production of olive oil.
He added: In a simple comparison, a gallon of vegetable oil for a price of five liters became 85,000 pounds, so how about a 20-liter olive oil tanker?
Saad
The mayor of al-Baramiyeh east of Saida, George Saad, pointed out that the olive season is weak this year, and of course the season is good in one year and poor in another, but this year, and with the deterioration of the situation and the leakage of the dollar, the price of the oil tank has risen, so everything has been linked to each other in light of the high cost of all products, but the citizen can not give up this product, which is one of the staples of every household, you will be burdened with paying the price of tin, leading many families to reduce their need for oil. Instead of buying a tank, buy a half tank. Shopping for citizens is almost non-existent under these conditions !!
It should be noted that the olive lands, found in the villages east of Sidon al-Zahrani, are considered limestone lands, or the so-called white lands, so the olive oil extracted from its grains is one of the finer and more important types of oil. His territory.
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