Some 61 million olive trees in Syria

Areas planted with olive trees in Syria are estimated at 458,000 hectares, planted with 61 million trees, of which 60% are yielding fruit.

The Syrian Ministry of Agriculture said in its statistics bulletin that preliminary estimates for the current season's production is 785,634 million olives from the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Idleb, Tartous, Lattakia, Dara, Homs, Damascus countryside, Hama, Sweida, Quneitra, Deir ezz, Zour, Raqqa and al-Hassaka.

The bureau explained that production for this season will increase by 135,000 over past figures. Thereby each hectare produces 2,850 Kg, which represents a high rate in comparison with other olive-producing countries.