Jordan’s Ministry of Agriculture has set October 15 as the date when olive presses across the country may open and pressing operations for the current season may begin. The ministry’s statement was reported by Petra on October 7, so October 15 is a scheduled start, not an opening that has already taken place. The ministry instructed agricultural directorates nationwide to monitor presses in their jurisdictions and check compliance with the announced date. The decision establishes one national start date, but the source does not list individual facilities, their operating hours or their capacities. It also does not say that every press will begin work on that day. A calendar directive should therefore not be read as evidence that any particular facility has started production.

The ministry said pressing must not begin before the specified date and warned that violators could face legal liability. The announcement consequently combines a seasonal timetable with a compliance instruction. Petra’s report does not specify the type or amount of any penalty, how many inspections will be conducted, or whether violations have already been found. This account does not claim that sanctions have been imposed or that every facility has been inspected. The ministry’s instruction assigns monitoring to agricultural directorates in their respective areas; no inspection results or subsequent enforcement figures were included in the report. Any later assessment of compliance would need a separate official update rather than an inference from the scheduled date.

The ministry said the decision was made in anticipation of the coming olive-pressing season. It also linked the measure to Article 10 of the 2024 Instructions for Licensing the Establishment and Operation of Olive Presses. Petra did not reproduce the full article or describe its detailed legal requirements, so the report supports noting the stated legal basis but not adding a broader interpretation of the rule. It contains no forecast for the olive harvest, olive-oil production, producer prices, number of presses or season end date. Those figures cannot be derived from the opening schedule. The verified scope is the national start date and the ministry’s request that local agricultural offices monitor adherence.

A common start date gives growers and press operators a planning reference for the transition from harvest to processing, but it is not itself a measure of crop supply or market availability. Harvesting, transporting olives and pressing them are separate steps, and Petra’s report does not quantify any of them. It also reports no investment, energy consumption, plant capacity or subsidy associated with the decision. The announcement is best understood as an operational rule for the beginning of the season, with local monitoring assigned to government directorates. Once October 15 arrives, confirmation that facilities actually opened would require a later source. Until then, the date remains scheduled, and the ministry’s statement does not establish actual throughput or production.