27 Apr

Interview with VN Dalmia, President of the Indian Olive Oil Association

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 [...]

13 Apr

International Council of Olive’s meeting will be held in Iran

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 manager [...]

13 Apr

Pakistan: Govt planning to boost olive oil production

By Ijaz Kakakhel,
Realising importance of olive oil, the government is planning to encourage its production for meeting local requirements as well as for the export purposes.
An official in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock told Daily Times here on Saturday there is a lot of potential for olive cultivation in the country.
According to an [...]

27 Mar

India’s olive experiment take off in Rajasthan this week

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 [...]

16 Mar

Far from Spain, olives may have a home in Oregon soil

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 [...]

04 Mar

Indo-Spanish Joint venture olive oil extraction unit proposed in Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh will welcome the proposed Indo-Spanish joint venture olive oil extraction unit establishment in the interiors of the state to give boost to the professional cash crop cultivation.
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today, after discussing the JV proposal to set up olive oil extraction unit in the state, said the border areas of the [...]

24 Feb

Pakistan and Greece to sign MoU for olive oil production

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Pakistan and Greece are likely to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in olive cultivation and olive oil production.
According to the information reaching Trade Development Authority (TDAP) here on Saturday, MINFAL has already accepted the draft of the MoU which has now been forwarded [...]

29 Dec

Pakistani Government to enhance olive oil production

The government has planned to enhance olive oil production and processing areas in 12 districts of Balochistan to bring 6,000 acres land for cultivation of olive orchards.
According to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture sources, during the five years, 675,000 plants in these districts which are considered as low delta crop for mass propagation of [...]

17 Nov

Training session on Olive cultivation held

Written by syedalisafvi,
Under Horticulture Technology Mission ” Standardization of Agro-Techniques for Olive” programme, a one-day training-cum-demonstration session of officers, field functionaries of Horticulture Department and progressive farmers of district Udhampur and Reasi was organized by the Scientists of Sher-I-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology, Jammu, here today. The Scientists who delivered lectures on “Olive [...]

03 Nov

120000 hectares of increase in world’s Olive cultivation

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 [...]

25 Sep

Pakistani Governement has planned to enhance olive oil production

The Federal Government has planned to enhance olive oil production and processing areas in 12 district of Balochistan to bring 6000 acres of land for the cultivation of olive orchard.
According to the ministry of food and agriculture sources during the five years, 675000 plants in these districts which are considered as low delta crop for [...]

22 Sep

Can Indian food be cooked in olive oil?

By Rasheeda Bhagat,
Can Indian food be cooked in olive oil? When this question was posed to celebrated Indian chef Sanjeev Kapur at a promotion campaign for olive oil and table olives organised by the International Olive Council in Delhi on Thursday, his reply was simple. “Of course it can, that’s a no brainer”.
Indian cuisine had [...]

30 Aug

Greece’s olive oil producers face a bitter harvest

By Elena Becatoros,
ARTEMIDA, Greece - The smoldering trunks of olive trees stretch across mountain slopes and valleys, their precious fruit lying like pellets of charcoal on the blackened ground. As far as the eye can see, the groves that produce one of Greece’s best known exports have been devastated.
A week of forest fires have not [...]

12 Aug

Super intensive Olive haverst

New super Intensive Olive Orchard cultivation System is promising higher yields and mechanical handling for almost everything. Have a look…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr42nwYp7xk