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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 [...]

By Liz Crain,
The Mediterranean region cultivates the majority of the world’s olives, but when it comes to domestic olives, California is the largest producer, cultivating roughly 10 percent of the world’s table olives.
Oregon has been typically considered either too cold or too rainy for olive cultivation, but farmers are beginning to realize that the state’s [...]

Climate change could lead to more crops of olives and sunflowers being grown in Dorset, delegates at an environmental forum heard.
Around 60 people, including farmers, politicians and environmentalists, attended a meeting on climate and landscape change at Kingston Maurward College organised by Dorset’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) branch.
Environmental workshops followed keynote speeches by [...]

Article by Nicole Visschedyk,
Photo by Peter J. Thompson,
If you think the new Olive and Olive Oil shop is the ultimate in niche shopping, consider this: Not only is every item in the store olive-based, but it all comes from one small village in Northern Turkey.
Mehmet Uzel, who opened Toronto’s first olive-only store just off [...]

Northern Yuba County is nothing like Greece, but the Mediterranean-like climate and rocky soils in the foothills are considered ideal for growing olives.
By Laura Brown,
“We’re on a very similar latitude as Athens,” said Steve McCulley, one of four partners who operates the company, Apollo Olive Oil, in the remote community of Oregon House. The partners [...]

By GÖZDE ASLANTAŞ,
A dramatic fall in this year’s olive oil production has forced producers to ask for government support. “The loss in olive orchards is growing every day,” said Ersezgin Companies Group food department chief, Naci Özgen, illustrating the dim situation of olive oil and olive producers.
In addition to the ravaging effects of global warming [...]

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By Gözde Aslantaþ,
Dramatic fall in this year’s olive oil production raises anxiety with producers, while the National Olive and Olive Oil Committee (UZZK) tries to define Turkey’s goal and place among the world’s top three olive oil producers.
Opposing UZZK’s goals is the loss in olive orchards that is growing every day. Producers called [...]