Archive for November 19th, 2006

19 Nov

Market growing for Marin olive oil producers, sellers

By Gary Klien, The McEvoy Ranch is always finding new ways to squeeze money from olives. This holiday season, the Northern Marin olive-oil producer is launching a new line of olive-oil based body products called “Verde.” The line includes body lotion, hand cream and a body scrub made from the same 100-percent organic oil the […]

19 Nov

Fresno Olive oil wins first medal

Fresno State Orchards Estate Reserve Olive Oil – California State University, Fresno’s very first pressing – won a bronze medal at the prestigious San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival. Harvested and processed a year ago and bottled in March, the university’s olive oil joins Fresno State wines as an award-winning, student-produced agricultural product recognized […]

19 Nov

Rajasthan, Israel join hands to plant olive trees

Aimed at popularising olive oil in food preparations JAIPUR: The Rajasthan State Agricultural Marketing Board on Saturday signed a tripartite agreement with two Israeli companies to promote cultivation of olive trees in the desert State. State Agriculture Minister Prabhulal Saini said olive would be cultivated on 210 hectares of Government land at 10 different locations […]

19 Nov

olive in Athens

The olive blog has been on tour in Greece from the Temple of Olympian to the museums in Athens. Here is the different posts with pictures: Olives in Athens Olives in Athens II Olives in Athens III Olives in Athens IV Olives in Athens V Olives in Athens VI Olives in Athens VII Olives in […]

19 Nov

Fonds de promotion de l’huile d’olive conditionnée, missions et modalités d’intervention

Par S.b, L’huile d’olive est le produit phare de la Tunisie à l’export. Notre pays est le quatrième exportateur mondial après l’Espagne, l’Italie et la Grèce. L’huile tunisienne représente une part équivalente à 25% environ des quantités échangées internationalement» avec une très grande prédominance du vrac. Une radioscopie d’un secteur stratégique de l’économie tunisienne, celui […]