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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 [...]

Tunisia, the world’s fourth-largest olive oil producer, increased sales abroad by 15 percent to 89,300 tonnes over the first three months of the year, government data showed on Tuesday.
Olive oil represents half the country’s farm exports which account for more than 10 percent of total exports.
Tunisia sells 90 percent of its olive output abroad, mainly [...]

On April 3rd 2008, Its Majesty King Mohammed VI carried out the inauguration of a mechanized plantation of olive-trees (directed by GPS) of Spanish varieties (Arbequina and Arbossana) and Greek variety (Koroneiki) pertaining to the Company AGRO HEALTH and located in the Moroccan area of Beni-Mellal.
This plantation was designed and led technically by the [...]

Regarding table olives, Morocco is the second exporting country worldwide. Spain remains the market leader. For olive oil, Morocco is the fifth or sixth largest exporter. The Moroccan company SACIA is responsible for a large part of the national olive export.
SACIA was founded in 1999 when the first machine for the production of olive oil [...]

One of the world’s leading producers of olive oil, Tunisia is seeking to further entrench its positioning on the world olive oil market.
Tunisia ’s participation at the “2007 Anuga” (International salon of agro-food industries and technologies) Salon in Cologne , Germany is seen by observers as a step in that direction.
The Salon which ran from [...]

The piles of dates and bowls of fragrant ginger and cumin at the entrance give a traditional Sudanese feel to Mohamed Osman Babkir’s dusty general store.
But step inside and the unprepared customer is transported to a trendy European foodhall. Bottles of olive oil from Spain, balsamic vinegar from Italy and jars of preserved cherries are [...]

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan cooking oil producer Lesieur Cristal said on Friday its first-half profit tumbled as world prices for its raw materials rose and olive oil exports slipped.
Net income fell to 11 million dirhams in the first six months of the year from 44 million a year earlier, the unit of Moroccan conglomerate ONA [...]

Tunisia’s olive oil exports more than doubled in the first five months this year to 113,200 tonnes from the same period last year, official data showed.
Olive oil represents half of the country’s farm exports, which account for more than 10 per cent of total sales abroad.
The value of Tunisia’s olive oil sales abroad soared to [...]

Wezi Tjaronda
Windhoek
Olive farming has great potential to become one of Namibia’s most important commercial crops.
When all the olive trees growing in the areas of Swakopmund, Hochfeld, Kalahari, Omaruru, Otavi, Orange and Namibia central have reached full production, the country will produce around 74 400 litres of oil but there will still be a shortfall of [...]

GABORONE - The first commercial olive tree project in the country is in operation at the Glen Valley Production and Training Farm (PTF). President Festus Mogae launched the operation by planting one of the envisaged 2 500 commercial olive trees.
The occassion coincided with the start of the National Master Plan for Arable Agriculture and Dairy [...]

Lately there is a lot of talk about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. But what exactly is that?
Epidemiologic studies have shown that many people from Mediterranean countries can eat fatty diets and yet not have a high risk of heart disease.
Spaniards José Mataix of the University of Granada and Francisco Javier Barbancho of [...]

In order to develope organic agriculture in Tunisia and raise more awareness in the farmers of this very promising market in the future says, journalist Ridha Bahlous in Allafrica, a colloquium has been organized recently, which was chosen to promote this form of agriculture.
The Nefza region places natural potentials such as wide spread forests, never [...]

Tunisia’s olive oil exports grew 65 percent in January from a year earlier as it boosted output to meet rising world demand, official data showed on Friday.
Tunisia is North Africa’s top exporter of olive oil, which accounts for half of its farm exports. Those in turn represent more than 10 percent of the country’s total [...]

Tunisia’s key olive oil exports jumped by 53 percent to 167 700 t last year as a government campaign to boost exports bore fruit, official data showed on Thursday.
Olive oil, whose popularity is growing among health-conscious consumers worldwide, represents half of the North African country’s farm sales which in turn account more than 10% of [...]

By Sade Oguntola,
OLIVE oil, the centerpiece of the Mediterranean diet, a regime long associated with healthy heart and improved blood flow, may prevent getting infected with the Helicobacter pylori bacteria, the cause of millions of gastric and peptic ulcer cases worldwide.
Researchers from the Spanish Institute de la Grasa and the University Hospital of Valme, confirmed [...]

The world’s growing taste for olive oil is pouring new life into parts of rural North Africa, where the golden liquid has been a staple since ancient times.
However, drought, archaic production methods and poor marketing are a challenge for local producers facing growing competition as more countries slip into the olive oil market.
Tunisia and Morocco [...]

By Tarek Amara and Zakia Abdennebi,
TUNIS/RABAT (Reuters) - The world’s growing taste for olive oil is pouring new life into parts of rural North Africa, where the golden liquid has been a staple since ancient times.
However, drought, archaic production methods and poor marketing are a challenge for local producers facing growing competition as more countries [...]

THIS country’s finest olive oil comes from Franschhoek in the Boland. Waterfall River Farm beat twenty contenders in the Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition with an oil made from its maiden vintage.
The results of the first SA Olive Awards were announced last month at Laborie in Paarl. Winners were awarded in three categories: Extra Virgin [...]

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.

Un programme quinquennal permettant la plantation de quelque 17.075 ha en arbres fruitiers est en cours de réalisation à travers des projets intégrés dans la province de Nador, a indiqué la Direction provinciale de l’agriculture à Nador (DPA).
Le programme, qui s’étend jusqu’à 2010 et touche les terres bour et irriguées prévoit la plantation de 8.900 [...]

Ils ne savent plus où donner de la tête. En cause la longue chaîne d’intermédiaires et une spéculation à la règle qui empêchent les industriels marocains de pouvoir faire des prévisions fiables.
Cet état des faits avait réussi, l’année dernière à porter le prix de l’huile d’olive à 50 DH le litre sur le marché international, [...]

Depuis le début de Ramadhan, une foule de revendeurs intermédiaires d’olives se disputent quotidiennement la place aux marchands de fruits et légumes ayant, depuis longtemps, investi toute une rue de l’agglomération de Bouguirat.

L’olivier, arbre millénaire et symbole de la paix, est le végétal dominant dans la région de Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, couvrant près de 115.000 hectares, soit 75% de la superficie arable et 20 % de patrimoine national en la matière.
A titre illustratif, la production moyenne annuelle dans le territoire du ressort de l’Office régional de mise en [...]

Par Yousra Mahfoud,

Développer davantage l’offre et la diversification des destinations
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C’est une bonne campagne d’exportation de l’huile d’olive qui s’annonce en Tunisie. Selon les statistiques officielles, la saison, qui s’achève en octobre, a permis d’exporter plus de 100.000 tonnes d’huile d’olive.
Les [...]

Par Ridha Bahlous,
Beja - Des pluies bénéfiques et démarrage prometteur

La saison agricole a démarré dans des conditions favorables. Les dernières pluies ont été bénéfiques à plus d’un titre. En effet, le travail de la terre se fait dans d’excellentes conditions. Les préparatifs ont commencé depuis plusieurs semaines déjà par l’évaluation de la campagne précédente.
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Dans la [...]