This year's olive harvest for oil was expected to total 53,000 tons.
Israel's olive oil production will be three times higher in 2004 than in 2003, said olive board general manager Amin Salah. He made the comment at this year's gala opening of the olive pressing in Acre, in the presence of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Yisrael Katz. Salah said this year's olive harvest for oil was expected to total 53,000 tons, compared with only 12,000 tons in 2003, and that this year's olive oil production would reach 8,000 tons.
90% of Israel's 200,000 dunam (50,000 acres) of olive groves are intended for making olive oil. Ten new olive oil makers joined Israel's 105 makers this year.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on November 3, 2004