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Oman Reports Good Season for Olive Oil Production

By Julie Al-Zoubi
Jan. 6, 2020 08:59 UTC
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Between August and December 2019, Oman har­vested sixty tons of olives, pro­duc­ing 8,028 liters of olive oil from its 15,000 strate­gi­cally planted olive trees in the North East region around 170 kilo­me­ters from Muscat, which has a cli­mate sim­i­lar to Mediterranean coun­tries. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries imported olive seedlings in 1994, lead­ing to suc­cess­ful olive cul­ti­va­tion in Oman despite ini­tial chal­lenges in adapt­ing the non-native trees to the coun­try’s arid cli­mate.

According to fig­ures from Oman’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, sixty tons of olives were har­vested in the coun­try between August and December 2019 from which 8,028 liters of olive oil were pro­duced.

Oman’s 15,000 olive trees were strate­gi­cally planted in the of North East Oman (around 170 kilo­me­ters from the cap­i­tal, Muscat) which enjoys a sim­i­lar cli­mate to Mediterranean coun­tries. A wide vari­ety of olive species have report­edly been pro­duced in this moun­tain­ous region.

See Also:Olive Oil of Oman

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ini­ti­ated the impor­ta­tion of olive seedlings in 1994 (largely from Syria) and Omani farm­ers embraced olive cul­ti­va­tion as a new source of income.

Early attempts to cul­ti­vate the non-native olive tree in the sultanate’s arid cli­mate were largely unsuc­cess­ful and raised the ques­tion as to whether olive trees could sur­vive Oman’s harsh con­di­tions.

In 2014, Olive Oil Times reported that olive cul­ti­va­tion in Oman was ini­ti­ated by the sur­pris­ing appear­ance of fruit on a sin­gle olive tree gifted from Egypt.

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