12 Mar
Environment-friendly Olive Oil Factory
Here are some pictures of Olisur Olive Oil’s new and Eco friendly factory.
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29 Aug
Spanish company begins Chile’s largest Olive Oil business
By Naomi Bryant,
Spanish-owned Peinsa has announced plans to build Chile’s largest olive oil business at a cost of US$200 million. The project contemplates putting 5,000 hectares of olive plantations into production in Region VII.
The company began buying up land near Villaseca in January. It currently owns 3,200 hectares, with contracts to rent another 300. In [...]
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28 Jul
Brazil Discovers Olive Oil
by Joel Santos Guimarães
Last year, Brazilian imports of the product totaled US$ 170 million. Of this total, 54% came from Portugal. And the forecast is for growth to continue as, this year, expansion of 20% is expected in comparison with 2007.
Two reasons are given for the market growth: the first is that Brazilians are seeking [...]
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04 Jun
Mexican Olive Oil: Ensenada to Fairway
By Florence Fabricant,
This extra virgin olive oil, Fairway’s house brand Mexican Mission, made entirely from Mission olives on a small estate near Ensenada in Baja California, is about as subtle as a mariachi band. It is sunny, fairly viscous and green, with substantial olive and sage flavors.
Olive oil figures only minimally in traditional Mexican cookery, [...]
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01 May
Peru’s purple olives soaked in history
By Maricel E. Presilla,
On my first trip to Peru many years ago, I was captivated by the country’s black olives. Juicy, meaty and flavorful, they were a far cry from the rubbery California black olives of U.S. salad bars and a welcome change from the sharp, briny green Manzanilla olives I grew up eating in [...]
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15 Dec
Argentina’s olive exports set new record
Argentina’s olive and olive oil exports set a new record of 148 million U.S. dollars in the first ten months of this year, local media reported Sunday.
From January to October, Argentina exported 76,300 tons of olives, with a net profit of 98.5 million dollars, Argentine authorities said.
Olive exports and the net profit rose by 18.8 [...]
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09 Oct
Peruvian olives facing the United States market
According to estimates of the Foreign Trade Institute of Spain, United States consumes about 170,000 tons of olives annually, which accounts for over half a kilo per habitant. That could be explained because of the higher conscience of Americans about healthy products as well as the new preferences for exotic products. Therefore, olives are consumed [...]
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17 Feb
Chili: 6,000-year-old seasoning?
Scientists found fossil evidence that ancient Americans from southern Peru up to the Bahamas were cultivating varieties of chilies about 6,000 years ago.
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23 Jan
WTO to investigate EU complaint against Mexico over olive oil duties
GENEVA: The World Trade Organization has begun an investigation into a complaint brought by the European Union that Mexico has charged illegal duties on EU olive oil, officials said Tuesday.
The EU lodged an initial complaint to the Geneva-based trade arbitration body in December, after months of negotiations between Brussels and Mexico failed to resolve the [...]
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19 Dec
Mexico Blocks Probe of Olive Oil Duties
Mexico has temporarily blocked a World Trade Organization investigation into whether duties it imposes on European olive oil violate international commerce rules, officials said Tuesday.
However, an investigative panel will automatically be established next month, if the 25-nation European Union repeats its complaint at the WTO’s dispute settlement body, trade officials said.
The move to bring the [...]
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13 Dec
Offering a taste of Chilean gold
Judith Snively, importer, promoter and distributor of the Kardámili line of olive oils, holds a tasting demonstration in the specialty foods section of Spec’s in Midtown. About $340,000 of Chilean olive oil was imported to the U.S. this year through September.
By Jelania Moreno,
At the Spec’s store in Midtown, Houstonian Stefanos Giannaris tasted bread dipped in [...]
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14 Nov
Embrapa tests Moroccan olive tree cultivation
By Isaura Daniel,
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum,
Approximately one year ago, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) planted 40 different types of olive trees in the Brazilian semi-arid. The seedlings came from eight different countries, including Morocco. In 2008, they should begin bearing fruits, which will attest to the viability of olive planting in the country.
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20 Jun
In Paso, oil and wine can mix
By Jeanne Kinney,
Joshua Yaguda, co-owner of Pasolivo Olive Oil, is proving that Paso Robles is more than wine country.
Yaguda, his wife, Joeli, and his mother, Karen Guth, run the 140-acre Willow Creek Olive Ranch, where each year about 50 laborers are able to hand-pick up to 10 tons of olives a day. After picking, the [...]
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13 Jun
Olives, emus and snails power Chile’s move into health markets
By Paul Harris,
Olivier Leleux shades his eyes from the intense Chilean sun while riding horseback through olive groves on a mountain near Catemu in Chile’s Aconcagua Valley, an hour north of Santiago.
This is perfect olive country, he says: it has no olive fly (which harms fruit) and the extreme day-night temperature difference is good for [...]
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