Tunisia olive oil output to hit record 500,000 tonnes in 2026, producers head says

Tunisia’s olive oil production this season is likely to increase by about 50 percent from last year to a record 500,000 tons. (Reuters/File)
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Updated 25 October 2025
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Tunisia olive oil output to hit record 500,000 tonnes in 2026, producers head says

  • Harvest is expected to be around 500,000 tons due to good rainfall

TUNIS: Tunisia’s olive oil production this season is likely to increase by about 50 percent from last year to a record 500,000 tonnes, which will provide support to the country’s fragile economy and bolster its top export industry.

Najah Saidi Hamed, head of the Olive Producers Chamber, told Reuters that the harvest is expected to be around 500,000 tonnes due to good rainfall this season.

The record output would consolidate Tunisia’s place among the world’s top olive oil producers, a commodity that has seen growing interest from both consumers and investors.


Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon

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Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon

  • Lebanon’s state news agency, NNA, reported that Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several places in the south

BEIRUT: The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it struck infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in several areas in southern Lebanon, including what it described as a training compound used by the armed group’s Radwan forces.
Military structures and a launch site belonging to Hezbollah were also hit in the attacks, the military added in a statement.
The strikes come less than a week after Israel and Lebanon both sent civilian envoys to a military committee monitoring their ceasefire, a step toward a months-old US demand that the two countries broaden talks in line with President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace agenda.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in 2024 that ended more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Since then, they have traded accusations over violations.
Lebanon’s state news agency, NNA, reported that Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several places in the south.