The end of the olive season in the Kingdom and calls to encourage investment in “peat”
Amman Today
publish date 2023-01-13 22:18:47
Amman – the compass
The media spokesman for the Syndicate of Press Owners, Mahmoud, announced the end of the olive season in the Kingdom, stressing that “production achieves self-sufficiency and the Kingdom’s need for the coming period.”
Al-Omari expressed his thanks to the Ministry of Agriculture, which spared the sector “all the challenges that pertain to the Al-Zibar landfills.”
He pointed out that the “peat file” is still incomplete from the union’s point of view, calling for the opportunity to be given to millers to make better use of it and manufacture it because of the many benefits it contains.
He stressed that olive dried can be used in the production of fodder and fertilizers, and used as a source of energy for heating, instead of considering it as “waste.”
Al-Omari pointed out that “the areas where peat is used for heating have witnessed a decline in attacks on forest trees and excessive logging of forests.”
He noted that peat is economical compared to fuel prices, explaining at the same time that the manufacture of peat is concentrated in Jordan only as molds used in heating, and this manufacturing takes place in mills, as there are no regulations and instructions regarding licensing laboratories specialized in the manufacture of peat.
Al-Omari said: We, as a syndicate of the owners of mills and olive producers in the Kingdom, and due to the importance of this article, we demand to keep the pressing of peat in mills and not to put pressure on the owners of mills and consider it as waste that must be disposed of and transported from the mill to other locations.
And he expressed his regret that “there are no conditions, instructions, or specifications from the relevant authorities in this regard, meaning that the proposed solution is only a transfer of the problem and the creation of unqualified hotspots.”
Al-Omari stressed the need to “create a time space for mills and to encourage investment in industries for this material to create job opportunities and solve an environmental problem by allowing mills to compress peat within certain bases and conditions,” warning that if it is not treated and disposed of without manufacturing, it could pose an environmental problem. rather than a material and environmental benefit.
He pointed out that 73% of the fruit trees in the Kingdom are olive trees, which are served by 140 olive presses to squeeze 80% of the produced fruits.
At the end of his speech, he pointed out that “the mills bear high costs in order to compress the peat and manufacture it from machines, labor, electricity, water, containers, etc., in order to avoid creating an environmental problem.”
(compass)
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