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By Leo Leonidou,

One in three children in Cyprus and the EU suffer from some form of allergy, with the condition rife at this time of year on the island due to an increase in olive pollen.
“Olive trees are this year producing more blossom, meaning pollen levels are higher than in the previous few years,” [...]

As South Australia endures the 15th day of its heatwave, Eyre Peninsula olive growers are battling in the lead up to next month’s harvest.
At Lincoln Olive View Estate, production is expected to drop by as much as 10,000 tonnes, with some trees bearing just a few kilos of olives.
Grower Kevin Burner says he must make [...]

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 [...]

How can olives produce “green” electric power??
Lucchi and Guastalli, an olive oil producing firm of Santo Stefano di Magra, in Liguria’s eastern province has recently inaugurated a new kind of olive-pressing machine, which could herald a real technological revolution in the arch-shaped Italian region, noted to be the major olive-producer of Northern Italy.
The new [...]

With lifestyle diseases like obesity and heart trouble becoming endemic in the country, Indians are increasingly taking to olive oil as the preferred cooking medium, prompting global manufacturers to eye this growing market.
According to the International Olive Council (IOC), a non-profit organisation, Indians today consume some 2,000 tonnes of olive oil per annum, but the [...]

After Nudo, an organic farm in the green hills of Umbria, Italy, proposes an unusual gift idea for Christmas: Adoption of an olive tree, a present that will help to preserve nature.
The olive tree is one of the oldest cultivated plants of humanity. Since antique times it is a symbol for peace, longevity, health and [...]

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 [...]

By Guy Keeler,
You can give the symbol of peace and goodwill this holiday season — and help needy people around the world — by giving live olive trees to the green thumbs on your Christmas list.
Lindsay Olives, a division of Bell-Carter Foods Inc., is offering manzanilla olive trees to gift givers through the end of [...]

An initiative which works to regenerate contaminated mining land by planting olive groves could spread to disused mine sites around the world.
Broken Hill’s Gourmet Products cooperative, in far western New South Wales, is currently calling for investors and has lodged a patent on the regenerating properties of the olive groves which until now has been [...]

By Holly Hayes
For generations, many gardeners in California were accustomed to growing olives for oil or table fruit. Then came the invasion of the olive fruit fly, which was first discovered in the Los Angeles area in 1998 and quickly spread throughout the state’s olive-growing regions.
Commercial growers fairly quickly had tools to control the pest. [...]

After you’ve enjoyed a tangy olive, don’t throw away the pit - it could soon be providing a clean, green answer to heat and electricity production, thanks to technology developed by Israeli start-up Genova, now setting up its first pilot plant.
The company, which was founded in September 2004, is headquartered in the northern town of [...]

In Hasbaya, an Olive Press owner, Rashid Zoueihed developed a new way to use the Olive skin and kernels after pressing the oil out.
Pressing these rests into a small machine to make Cylinders 25 cm long and 15 cm radius, weighing each 1200 g, passing into this machine makes these natural olive elements glued together, [...]

Regional experts, public officials and owners of olive oil presses convened this week to draw up a strategy for regulating the olive products sector and addressing environmental problems resulting from olive by-products.
During the third meeting of the regional committee of the integrated waste management of the Olive Oil Pressing Industries Programme, participants discussed means to [...]

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 [...]

Tuscany’s 12 hills to become centre of biomass production - Chianti could become a production centre for renewable biomass energy thanks to an abundance of vegetable by-products from the cultivation of olives and grapes, in addition to livestock and wood farming.
The University of Florence already has an experimental project in place to study eventual uses [...]

Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, verified that maslinic acid – found in wax from olive skin – inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment.
Olive oil has become part of the fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) [...]

We all know that olives and the oil they produce is healthy. But did you know that the humble olive is now helping to combat pollution in industrial sewage water? It’s true, and Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News had this to say yesterday:
A study carried out by Dr. German Tenorio Rivas, a member [...]

The Environment Ministry will establish a pilot plant by the end of this year to treat the liquid residue of the olive-pressing process, as it pollutes the soil and water resources.
The JD500,000 EU-funded plant, to be built either at the Ikeider holding area or the Jordan University of Science and Technology, will start operating within [...]