21 Apr
A company from Turkish western province of Aydin will set up an olive oil filling facility in Romania to reach European consumers.
Ortak Entrepreneurs Corp. chairman, Ozcan Guven, told reporters on Friday that they would establish the facility in Ramnicu Valcea city, and the facility would start production within four months.
Guven said that nearly 80 [...]
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01 Feb
Turkish olive and olive oil exporters examine factories in the Spanish cities of Madrid, Seville and Cordoba that meet 51 percent of total global demand for olive oil, and hold meetings with representatives of the Olive and Olive Oil Exporters Association, the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives and prominent olive and olive oil producers in the [...]
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23 Nov
The president of the Olive and Olive Oil Union has said their long-term target is to use only trademarked products in their export operations.
Olive and Olive Oil Union President Cahit Çetin spoke with the Anatolia news agency yesterday. He said his union is number one in Turkey for the export of packaged olive products, holding [...]
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19 Nov
The first prize of the International Olive Oil Council, the “Mario Solinas 2007″ Quality Award in the medium fruitiness olive oil category, was won by a producer based in the town of Plomari on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.
The firm Rafteli-Protouli M. Co was honored with the distinction.
Commendations in the extra virgin olive oil [...]
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19 Nov
By Bora Erdin,
The olive and olive oil sector experienced a drastic decline in exports compared with October of last year, export figures for October 2007 revealed last week. Meanwhile, total exports of agriculture and stockbreeding sectors increased by 39.93 percent to $1.28 billion, according to the same figures.
The situation concerning olives and olive oil is [...]
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08 Oct
A historical building which served as an olive oil factory for 200 years and was later used as camel shelter, a gin factory and woodshed in Muğla’s Milas district will be converted, with the help of the Milas Museum project, into what will be the most modern museum in the Aegean, luring both local and [...]
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08 Oct
Drought adversely affected agriculture everywhere around the Mediterranean this year and vegetable production has suffered one of its worst seasons. Livelihood of millions in the Marmara and Aegean regions of Anatolia, olive production has dropped dramatically due to scourging heat.
The production of the olive, commonly described as “black gold” in many provinces across Anatolia’s Marmara [...]
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