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Appeal to stop inflow of foreign olive oil
9-11-2018
The head of the Olive Committee at the National Gathering for Agricultural Committees in Lebanon, George Constantine Inati, disclosed in a press conference on November 3 that scores of trucks loaded with foreign olives and olive oil disguised with piles of vegetables enter Lebanese territory every day or through illegal border crossings. These trucks, Inati said, unload their goods in areas famous for olive cultivation in front of local farmers, noting that the olive harvest is not over, which aggravated further the crisis caused by climate change. Inati explained that olive oil that most of city residents buy from stores and hypermarkets in bottles carrying generic labels with the name of olive oil, which in fact are adulterated with caustic soda and re-colored with different pigments. A large number of agricultural cooperatives had already appealed to LIBNOR to change the forged oil label without reaching a conclusion. The made-in-Lebanon virgin olive oil, Inati said, is available at the presses, agricultural coops and with olive farmers in areas famous for planting olives. In this context, Al Mustaqbal newspaper brought to light the olive harvest season which began last Friday in Wadi Halta on the outskirts of Kfarshouba, Arkoub. The event is an opportunity for the village residents to meet after they parted due to general unfavorable circumstances, the newspaper wrote. The beautiful tradition of olive picking in Wadi Halta is disrupted by the difficulty of harvesting the crop and the costs incurred on land proprietors, including plowing and tilling, pruning of trees and spraying of pesticides and the labor for helping in the picking, in addition to the fierce competition of imported or smuggled complementary goods that invade the domestic markets. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, November 4, 7, 2018)
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