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Un million d’oliviers élevés en Israël seront plantés dans le désert du Rajasthan, dans le nord de l’Inde. Le pays-continent finalise un plan agricole triennal pour l’introduction de plusieurs espèces végétales méditerranéennes et moyen-orientales en Inde, qui espère devenir exportateur d’olives en 2011. Des dattiers et des vignes israéliens pourraient suivre afin d’aider la région [...]

Spain is the leading producer of olives and olive oil. It produces, on average, 1 million tons of olive oil annually. Spain’s more than 300 million olive trees cover more than 8,800 square miles – an area comparable to the size of Massachusetts. Experiment and discover what types of olive oil suit your tastes. The [...]

The USDA is seeking comments on proposals to change olive oil grading in the United States to bring it in line with international standards. Lloyd C. Day, administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, said, “The California Olive Oil Council, a trade association of olive oil producers, petitioned USDA to revise the current standards to conform [...]

Spanish food scientists experiment with new textures and colours of olive oil. A team of researchers at CTAEX (Centro Tecnológico Agroalimentario de Extremadura) have given olive oil a whole new look and feel in the hope that this will diversify and extend the use of what many people in Spain call liquid gold. Spain is [...]

Par D.R, Dans son numéro de juin, le magazine UFC-Que Choisir place les huiles d’olive bio en queue de peloton en terme de qualité. Pour l’association de consommateurs UFC-Que Choisir, « l’huile d’olive possède un atout formidable : c’est un produit 100 % naturel ». Oui mais voilà, naturel n’est pas forcément synonyme de bon. [...]

Consumers may pay less for Australian olive oil after a bumper Victorian olive harvest. There was no harvest in many Victorian olive groves last year because of the drought. Olive grower Richard Baum says a third of his trees will provide enough product to supply his markets. “Probably the good news for consumers is that, [...]

Olive thieves struck again. The Amenduni Australian Olive Expo’s grove holds 200 olive trees, all of which have been stripped of their fruits due to be harvested before the October display. The Hunter Valley, NSW, has also been hit recently. The ACT grove is surrounded by security fences, which are more than one-metre high and [...]