Dr. Eger Launches a Revolutionary line of Olive Oil Spreads that is based on a Technology Breakthrough that Maintains the Fatty Acid Composition.
Using a patented oil solidification process, which retains their original properties of all of the ingredients, Dr. Eger announced today the launch of new and healthy olive oil spreads which come in [...]
With a hard-earned U.S. Department of Agriculture signoff now in hand, TreeswithMeaning.com becomes one of the first companies in the U.S. approved to bring living olive trees from Israel to the North American market.
For owners–and brothers–Bruno and Jerome Schneider, building the company was an intricate business challenge requiring four years of negotiations, planning and [...]
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich,
Ben-Gurion University researchers have launched a unique collaboration with Beduin entrepreneurs to develop a modern olive press in the Negev- just in time for the olive harvest.
For the past two years, the Beersheba researchers have had professional ties with Negev Beduin in the production of olive oil. The multi-disciplinary BGU team focused [...]
By Hana Levi Julian,
Tens of thousands of acres in Judea and Samaria are blanketed with olive groves that now are bare of their fruit as one of the most successful harvest seasons in history draws to a close.
Palestinian Authority Arab farmers earned estimated revenues of more than $140 million from this year’s olive harvest, [...]
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich,
You may think you’re buying pure olive oil, but some suppliers are adulterating it with cheaper oils. Now the Bactochem lab in Nes Ziona (Israel) has developed a technique to identify olive oil that has been mixed with other oils, even at levels of only 5%.
Moshe Heller, who developed the technique, says it [...]
An ancient olive-oil production complex dating from the 6th-7th Centuries CE , one of the largest ever exposed in Israel was discovered at Ahihud, in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority.
A unique and impressive complex for producing oil that dates to the Byzantine period, which is also one of the largest uncovered in the [...]
An olive tree on the Mount of Beatitudes blessed by Pope John Paul II is the only one producing olives this year, according to the forester at the site.
Catholic Online reports in the Jubilee Year of 2000, Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land stopping at one point to bless an [...]
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 du Maharashtra, [...]
By Rhys Blakely,
The desert of Rajasthan in the north of India is to be planted with a million olive trees grown in Israel in an effort to transform the landscape and the fortunes of its struggling farmers.
The countries are finalising a three-year plan on agriculture that will introduce several crops associated with the Middle East [...]
President Dalmia, India decided to invest so much in olive oil market. Somebody is talking about a new Olive orchard model in the area called Rajasthan. Particularly they are intentioned to invest using very modern and high technologically irrigated systems. Why are you spending so much attention to olive cultivation?
In reality, I do not think [...]
Can India become a major producer and exporter of olive oil?
50,000 sapling of various varieties will be planted near Jaipur to find the Variety most suitable to India.
By Siddhartha Sarma,
The agriculture board of a desert state, a micro-irrigation firm, and an Israeli company think so. Later this week, 50,000 olive saplings of various varieties [...]
Olive oil prices are expected to rise on tight supply.
This year’s olive harvest is expected to be much smaller than in 2006, amounting to 15,000 tons, compared with 40,000 tons. One reason for the poor harvest was last year’s drought.
Hani Hahashan of Kfar Marar, who won the Israel Olive Board’s “Outstanding olive oil” award this [...]
C’est la 13ème année consécutive de cueillette conjointe : druzes, arabes, circassiens, bédouins ou israéliens de Galilée se retrouvent sous les oliviers durant les 3 week-ends exceptionnels de ce Festival internationalement reconnu depuis le Canada, les Etats-Unis ou la France, puisque de nombreux touristes y participent parfois très activement, parfois simplement lors de repas festifs [...]
Agriculture Minister Shalom Simchon announced on Thursday that he planned to fight the destruction of olive trees belonging to Palestinians by Jewish settlers.
Simchon made his comments after meeting with the Palestinian Authority’s Olive Council head, Army Radio reported. The minister promised him that he would formulate a plan of action in the matter in coordination [...]
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 temperatures [...]
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