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Thirty-first meeting of this council will be held in Tehran in the month Khordad for two days.
(IANA) – “After this meeting, which will be held with participation of representatives and specialists of member countries of this Council, an intensive training course regarding non-irrigated cultivation of Olive in Iran will be held,” said the executive [...]

Reported By: Mojgan Sattar,
Translated By: Aref Mohammadzadeh,
The autarky coefficient of oily seeds has to increase by the end of the fourth development program (2009) with an emphasis on Olive.
“The increase rate of oily seeds was not acceptable that has to be revived,” said in a special conversation with IANA’s reporter.
“According to the announcement of [...]

Every year 120 thousand hectares is added to the Olive cultivation areas in the world!
Translated By Aref Mohammadzadeh,
“Currently about 10 million hectares of farmlands is under Olive cultivation,” said Habib Al Seid, executive head of the International Olive Council (IOC), referring to the increasing cultivation area of Olive in the world.
“The main part of this [...]

An Iranian agriculture official has announced that an extra 10,000 acres have been added to Iran’s olive groves over the past 13 years.
“The total area that the country’s olive groves cover has grown from 3,000 acres in 1995 to over 13,000 acres,” said Jahangir Arab.
“The number olive processing factories has also increased from 6 to [...]

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 [...]

Regional experts, public officials and owners of olive oil presses convened this week to draw up a strategy for regulating the olive products sector and addressing environmental problems resulting from olive by-products.
During the third meeting of the regional committee of the integrated waste management of the Olive Oil Pressing Industries Programme, participants discussed means to [...]

Hossein Yousefi told IRIBNews on Sunday that Iran, which is the current president of the International Olive Council, issued identification cards for 300,000 olive trees in the year to March 2007.
He stressed that the councils member-states have welcomed Irans export plan.
At present, each olive sapling is priced between three and seven dollars in the global [...]