Masnat Al Hairy, Director of the Socio- economic Studies Directorate, NCARE, Jordan
With more than 20 million trees across the Kingdom, Jordan is among the top 10 olive producing countries in the world. Olive trees occupy 130,000 hectares of the country’s total terrain. About 78% of olive trees are planted in rainfed areas where the average rainfall exceeds 300 mm and the rest is planted under irrigation. Perennial olives have relatively low water consumption compared to the other tree crops, and are mostly unirrigated in Jordan.
