Rows of mature olive trees across a green hillside at dusk, with mountains on the horizon

Our Terroir

From Mediterranean hills to the edge of the Sahara: the Tunisian landscape, its olive varieties and the harvest that shapes every Elixerra lot.

Tunisia is one of the oldest olive-growing countries on earth and, in the 2025/26 campaign, the second largest producer in the world. This is the ground our oil comes from.

The country runs from Mediterranean hills in the north to the edge of the Sahara in the south, and the olive follows it the whole way. That range is why a single country can give you a delicate Chemlali and a fiercely green Chetoui in the same season.

The ground

Five things worth knowing

A smooth, wind-sculpted sand dune under a clear sky in southern Tunisia

Tunisia

The country, its climate and why the olive has thrived here for millennia.

Rows of mature olive trees across a green hillside at dusk, with mountains on the horizon

Olive Groves

Wide spacing, dry farming and what that does to the fruit.

Clusters of olives turning from green to deep purple among silver-green leaves

Olive Varieties

Chemlali, Chetoui, Oueslati — three signatures.

Two deep purple ripe olives glistening on the branch, photographed close up

Harvest

Picking by ripeness, and why the clock matters more than the calendar.

A sprinkler head watering plants in a cultivated field

Sustainability

Water, soil, pomace and the honest limits of what we can claim.

Tunisia in figures

The scale of the Tunisian grove

82MOlive treesRoughly one third of the country's arable land is planted with olives.

2M haUnder oliveOne of the largest olive areas in the world.

500k t2025/26 productionSecond worldwide, ahead of Tu00fcrkiye, Italy and Greece.

144k haCertified organicThe largest certified organic olive area on the planet.

Source: Tunisian 2025/26 campaign figures. These describe the country, not Elixerra’s own volumes.

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