“…According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture (FAO,2012), Libya has 8 million olive trees and the average production of 160,000 tons of olives and 32,000 tons of olive oil, after Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Recently, Libya has moved towards diversifying its economy, which depends on oil, to compete with its neighbors in the region by improving the quality of olive production as well as olive oil to become more competitive in European markets, as olive production and consumption is of vital economic importance in Mediterranean countries basin, including Libya (El-Khatib, et al, 2012;and Abdul, et al, 2013). According to Sadeg, 2014, the number of genotypes of cultivated olives has reached about 91 genetic varieties in Libya (39 local strains, 36 introduced varieties, and 16 wild species).…”