08 Oct
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 [...]
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14 Sep
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 [...]
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12 Jul
La Tunisie a participé, du 8 au 10 juillet 2007, à la 53ème édition du salon international des produits Agro-alimentaires “Fancy Food Show”, à New York.
Une dizaine d’entreprises tunisiennes ont exposé une variété de produits agro-alimentaires, notamment l’huile d’olive extra vierge, en bouteilles, et huiles biologiques, les dattes naturelles fraîches et conditionnées, les semi-conserves, les [...]
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28 May
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 [...]
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10 May
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 [...]
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08 May
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 [...]
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26 Apr
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 [...]
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24 Mar
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 [...]
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01 Mar
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 [...]
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21 Feb
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 [...]
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17 Feb
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 [...]
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07 Feb
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 [...]
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19 Jan
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 [...]
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14 Nov
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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09 Nov
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 [...]
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20 Oct
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, [...]
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15 Oct
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.
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12 Oct
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 [...]
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10 Oct
Par Yousra Mahfoud,
Développer davantage l’offre et la diversification des destinations
Hausse du taux d’huiles conditionnées pour l’export, fonds de promotion, stratégies marketing…
Un label propre en projet
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 [...]
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09 Oct
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 [...]
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09 Oct
I found a study publlished in 1997 about Olives in Morocco, it’s old, but very interesting:
By Jeremy Martin,
Thoughts of olives on a pizza or olives in a salad make one think about Greece, Italy and even Spain. However, Morocco is second only to Greece in exports of olives to the world market and are one [...]
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06 Oct
Morocco is eager to lure more foreign investors from Europe and the Arab Gulf region to help it modernise its agriculture as it prepares to lease more state-owned farms, a farm official said on Friday.
The government leased a first batch of state-owned farms to 173 investors, some of them foreigners, last year. The first offer [...]
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04 Oct
Le Ministre de l’Agriculture a annoncé, mardi, que les exportations d’huile d’olive tunisienne ont connu dans l’année une hausse record de 35% jusqu’à atteindre 376m$ dans ses huit premiers mois.
Le Ministère attribue cette augmentation à la forte production et à la demande importante du produit en Europe. Plus tôt dans l’année, les officiels gouvernementaux annonçaient [...]
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03 Oct
L’Olivier est cité dans le Coran comme un arbre sacré. Depuis les âges les plus reculés, le produit de cet arbre —l’olive et son principal dérivé, l’huile— n’a cessé de faire parler de ses vertus curatives et sanitaires d’une façon générale, mais sans apporter de preuves formelles quant à ses grandes qualités.
Aujourd’hui, le doute n’est [...]
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02 Oct
M. Essabah directeur de régulation et du développement de la production agricole, a affirmé que le département de Barkat accorde une grande importance à cette culture et pour cela, il a mis en place un programme national pour son développement dans les zones traditionnelles. «Nous voulons augmenter la consommation nationale et l’exportation de l’huile [...]
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