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Idlib launches olive festival after losing 1.5m trees

IDLIB: Idlib has launched its first olive festival, bringing together 52 exhibition pavilions from five Syrian governorates to promote olive cultivation and support agricultural producers. Idlib Gov. Mohammed Abdel Rahman said the province had lost approximately 1.5 million olive trees over the past 14 years as a result of systematic cutting. He said efforts to revive the sector include distributing olive seedlings to farmers and launching extensive tree-planting campaigns in rural areas this ye