By Amiram Cohen ,
The price of high-quality olive oil produced in Israel is expected to rise by 20 percent in the coming months, and reach NIS 40 to NIS 50 per liter.
The reason for the price increase is a poor olive harvest this year, as a result of last year’s dry winter and high [...]
Par Oki Faouzi,
Dans la wilaya d’El-Taref, le secteur de l’agriculture connaît actuellement quelque négligence bien remarquée au vu de ses immenses terres agricoles non exploitées par ses agriculteurs sachant que cette wilaya possède une superficie globale de 289 165 ha qui sont des terres non agricoles et le reste, soit une surface de 167 688 [...]
Par Badra Berrissoule,
·Un producteur propose de faire soi-même son huile
·Objectif: écouler la production sans passer par les intermédiaires
«Achetez vos olives et produisez votre propre huile». C’est le slogan de la nouvelle unité de production d’huile qui devrait voir le jour en novembre prochain à Sidi Bouathmane, à une vingtaine de kilomètres de Marrakech. La formule [...]
UC Davis Olive Oil, Yolo County Agriculture and Marketing Initiative & Slow Food Yolo present a Pre-Harvest Tour and Feast at the Historic Wolfskill Ranch in Winters October 13, 2007 10:30 am
Location: 4334 Putah Creek Road, Winters, CA
Program here (pdf)
Tickets available online here
Thanks Dan for the infos ;o)
By Bill Lindelof,
The fruit of Yolo County olive trees owned by UC Davis and planted nearly 150 years ago by one of Northern California’s early pioneers is finding new customers.
John R. Wolfskill, who worked for $100 a year when he came to California in the 1830s, planted the trees in [...]
Harvest operations of Olive have been started over 4 Thousand Hectares of fruitful gardens of this province.
Translated By: Aref Mohammadzadeh,
(IANA) – “15 Thousand Tons of Olive are harvested for canning and making Olive oil,” predicted Masoud Rabbani.
“Harvesting for canning has been started and that of oil will be started in November,” he added, pointing out [...]
By Marilyn Campbell,
California is striking oil — olive oil that is. Revelations about the health benefits of olive oil have led to a steady increase in American olive oil consumption. According to the California Olive Oil Council, sales of U.S. produced olive oil has increased 20 percent each year for the last five years. Much [...]
Qu’elles soient consommées à l’apéritif, en salade ou en plat cuisiné, entières ou dénoyautées, farcies ou aromatisées, les olives de table flattent toujours les palais de leur note fruitée.
Il existe une très grande variété d’olives de table, souligne la Fédération des industries condimentaires de France, et chaque région de production a sa (ses) petite(s) préférée(s). [...]
Article By Kylie Mendonca,
Photo by Steve E. Miller,
From Napa to Santa Barbara, California wines have developed as one of the state’s most coveted agricultural products. But there’s more to the fruits of the Golden State than just grapes. People in the know indulge in olives. California now produces some of the finest olives and oils [...]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7266726655319559481
On Thursday, the East Coast Olive Oil Corporation celebrated its grand opening at Rome’s Griffiss Park. The company, originally based in Utica, is part of the number one private label olive oil supplier in the world.
A new 185-square foot facility is home to more than 150 employees and that number is expected to increase.
Officials said [...]
New Zealand medicinal honey company Comvita has today completed its acquisition of Olive Products Australia (OPA).
OPA is a complementary medicine grower, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer in Queensland. It has developed a system to grow and extract the active compounds from olive tree leaves for use in human and therapeutic products.
Neil Craig, chairman of Comvita said: [...]
Article by Tara Parker-Pope,
Photo by Peter DaSilva,
Cooking oil is one of the most common ingredients in any household cupboard. But how much do you really know about it?
I found a great primer on the subject in, surprisingly, the latest “Supermarket Smarts” column of Diabetes Self-Management magazine. Registered dietitian Lea Ann Holzmeister of Tempe, Ariz., [...]
After you’ve enjoyed a tangy olive, don’t throw away the pit - it could soon be providing a clean, green answer to heat and electricity production, thanks to technology developed by Israeli start-up Genova, now setting up its first pilot plant.
The company, which was founded in September 2004, is headquartered in the northern town of [...]
The Federal Government has planned to enhance olive oil production and processing areas in 12 district of Balochistan to bring 6000 acres of land for the cultivation of olive orchard.
According to the ministry of food and agriculture sources during the five years, 675000 plants in these districts which are considered as low delta crop for [...]
Four Sisters is thrilled to announce that their first time entry took out the top Olives New Zealand award, “Best in show” for 2007. These awards were presented at the annual Olives New Zealand dinner held in Wellington on Saturday 22 September.
4 Sisters winning olive oil came from the Single Varietal Class and was composed [...]
Presentation of Torres y Ribelles, one of the oldest Olive oil company in Spain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PYkdXC-tVI
Israeli businessmen see Maharashtra as a destination for olive farming and want nearly 2,000 hectares of wasteland for starting up olive farming in the Maharashtra.
A delegation of businessmen led by Israeli consul general (commercial) Daniel Zohar Zoshine met state revenue minister Narayan Rane and made a request to provide nearly 2,000 hectares of wasteland to [...]
Do you want to eat and live healthy?
Many says olive oil, the cooking oil with the highest level of monounsaturated fatty acids, is the right product to ensure your healthy life.
Here is all you need to know about olive oil.
Olive oil is used abundantly in cooking, baking and marinating throughout the Mediterranean region.
The origin of [...]
By Rasheeda Bhagat,
Can Indian food be cooked in olive oil? When this question was posed to celebrated Indian chef Sanjeev Kapur at a promotion campaign for olive oil and table olives organised by the International Olive Council in Delhi on Thursday, his reply was simple. “Of course it can, that’s a no brainer”.
Indian cuisine had [...]
“Un aïeul pour le planter, un père pour le tailler et toute une descendance pour récolter…”. La légende dit que l’olivier est immortel. Il est vrai que des pousses reconstituent l’arbre quand le tronc est détruit, lui donnant une longévité exceptionnelle: jusqu’à 5000 ans!
L’olivier appartient à la famille des oléacées, comme le frêne ou le [...]
By Elisabeth Kalfsbeek,
While it is produced in Europe and South America as a byproduct of wine grapes, grapeseed oil is fast becoming California’s hot new commodity for retailers and restaurateurs alike.
“The market has grown dramatically,” said Matthieu Kohlneyer of La Tourangelle, an artisan producer of specialty and organic oils, in Woodland. “A lot of chefs [...]
Company has signed a marketing and distribution deal with Italy-based Salov, plans to launch Italian brand olive oil ‘Filipo Berio´ in other metros and tier II cities.
FMCG company R R Oomerbhoy eyes to grab 15% of the total domestic market of olive oil by next year, managing director of RRO Riyad R Oomerbhoy said on [...]
In Hasbaya, an Olive Press owner, Rashid Zoueihed developed a new way to use the Olive skin and kernels after pressing the oil out.
Pressing these rests into a small machine to make Cylinders 25 cm long and 15 cm radius, weighing each 1200 g, passing into this machine makes these natural olive elements glued together, [...]
By Sudhin Thanawala,
MARTINEZ, Calif.—Later this fall, Tom Powers will harvest his olives and press them into his Alhambra Valley brand authentic extra virgin olive oil with a distinctive peppery finish.
“This is really high quality stuff,” says Powers, whose two varieties of Tuscan olives grow amid the dry, rolling hills of Contra Costa County, northeast of [...]
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