The traditional olive harvest campaign in Tunisia

Olives Harvest Season is on !

It is in the region of Sfax, on November 10^th, that will start the season of harvest and transformation of olives. This will create 18000 seasonal employments for a period of 100 days. Tunisia is indeed ranked as the 4th world producer of olive oil right behind Spain, Italy, and Greece. It is also the biggest producer of organic olive oil. Nowadays, Tunisia indeed possesses 285 000 hectares of organic certified land.

The olive and the olive tree have always been the object of researches, both by scientists and by historians, archaeologists and agronomists. In autumn, this activity can be discovered with Autre Tunisie local guides during an Island tour of Djerba