Where can one buy certified seedlings of local olive varieties in Lebanon?
• There are presently no private or public nurseries providing certified seedlings that are locally produced. Accordingly, one cannot buy any certified seedlings of the local varieties. Imported certified seedlings of international varieties can be found on the market. • During the past 4-5 years, the Ministry of Agriculture had been active in distributing from its own nurseries close to a million olive trees per year of the local varieties to the growers. This program has recently been discontinued. • The Lebanese Agriculture Research Institute’s station in Tyr-South Lebanon has established, through an FAO-supported program, mother plant fields and a nursery that produces good quality (though not certified) seedlings of local and imported varieties of olives. • A national project was launched in 2004 which aims to develop a fruit tree certification system (including olives) that will, in the future, allow for the production of certified fruit tree seedlings which are true-to-type and
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