A diverse agricultural production was at the heart of the Afrin Canton's economy,[24] traditionally olives in particular, and more recently there was a focus on increasing wheat production.[25] A well-known product from the area is Aleppo soap, a hard soap made from olive oil and lye, distinguished by the inclusion of laurel oil. While Afrin Canton has been the source of olive oil for Aleppo soap since antiquity, the destruction caused by the Syrian Civil War to other parts of Aleppo governorate increasingly made the entire production chains locate in Afrin Canton.[26][27] At the height of the fighting for Aleppo, up to 50 percent of the city's industrial production was moved to Afrin Canton.[28] As of early 2016, two million pairs of jeans were produced per month and exported across Syria.[28] In January 2017, 400 textile industry workshops counted 17,000 employees, supplying the whole of Syria.[29]