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Ray Daher cultivates olives, contributes to eco-tourism
21-6-2017
In its edition of June 16, L’Orient Le Jour featured the career life of Ray Daher who owns and cultivates vast olive orchards, as well as manages guesthouses of her own design, in the northern town of Arjis, Zghorta. The 24-year-old engineer, daughter of LBCI director general, Pierre Daher, who holds a degree in architecture and interior decoration, told the newspaper that she did not want to work in the field, and chose instead to become an economic analyst at the TV station. Later on, she decided to kick off her own business and revive the forsaken family legacy in her home village which includes 5 deserted houses and some 70,000 meters of olive plantations. The idea, Daher boasted, started with the need to protect a total of one thousand olive trees and plant 201 olive seedlings. She bought the agricultural machinery and tractors to this end and hired assistants to keep the job, Daher explained to L’Orient Le Jour reporter. In the first year, production reached nearly 19 thousand kilograms of olives that were directly sold to olive oil producers, she said. As for the remaining olives tossed on the ground, Daher explained that she recruited skilled village women for making soap from olive oil. On the uninhabited abodes, Daher pointed out that she used one to house the oil press and the others as hostels to promote eco-tourism. (L’Orient Le Jour, June 16, 2017)
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