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By Jeremy Smith & Anthony Barker, European Union regulators suggested granting olive oil producers subsidies for private storage from as early as June as a way to prevent more price falls, the European Commission said on Monday. The Commission’s proposal, to be discussed soon by national experts from the EU’s 27 countries, would allow subsidised [...]

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If you’re interested in attending one of the top olive oil events of the year, head over to Trieste to the fairground there, the Piazzale de Gasperi. The three-day event, which starts on Sunday, is being hailed as a top extra-virgin olive oil expo, and promises to bring in all the important people in the [...]

By Sarah Brealey, A Suffolk farmer’s produce is staking a claim to be the new olive oil. The glass bottles of extra virgin cold-pressed rapeseed oil are now on sale in Tesco as it rapidly grows in popularity. It has been made by Sam Fairs at Hill Farm in Heveningham, near Halesworth, for the past [...]

The website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food has released final production figures for the 2006-2007 crop season, alongside sales numbers for the month of April & various other data. All figures are in metric tons. As is evident, sales volume has come to a complete halt – at season-low prices – during [...]

First printed in La Stampa, Adapted by Ronnie Richards, Spring is a time of year when new products and initiatives prompt us to also examine the health of the extravirgin olive oil sector. Rankings, competitions and industry publications help to create a picture of the situation. Considerable political, media and market attention is focused on [...]

By Robin Pomeroy, ROME, May 30 (Reuters) – Italy, which is pushing the European Union to accept that olive oil bottles should state the true origin of their contents, hopes to extend the idea to other globally traded food products, its farm minister said. In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, Paolo De Castro said [...]

Reporting by Julia Hayley, Edited by Bernard Halloran, Spain produced 34 percent more olive oil in the season just ended, or 1.11 million tonnes in total, the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday. “That represents 8 percent more than the average for the last four seasons,” it said. Olive farmers also produced 500,000 tonnes of table [...]

A question arises whenever olive oil is obtained: what can we do with its agricultural residues, such as olive vegetable water, browse leaves, or the solid waste known as ‘alpeorujo’? By Antonio Marín Ruiz, A study carried out by Dr. Germán Tenorio Rivas, a member of the research group “Solids concentration and bioremediation” from the [...]

The first 340 indigenous Maltese olive trees produced following the launch of the Project for the Revival of the Maltese Olive (PRIMO) in January last year are being planted in various localities in the country. A batch of 50 indigenous Maltese olive trees of the Bidnija variety was planted yesterday by Bank of Valletta employees [...]

A related posts here. ROME, Italy (Reuters) — When you buy a bottle of olive oil, the rolling Tuscan hills on the label and the “made in Italy” stamp should reassure you the product is as Italian as Chianti or Armani. In fact, there is no guarantee the oil is from Italy. That would change [...]

This e-growing system is an innovating tool created by Adozioni Bioalimentari Italy to include the plant kingdom into a distance adoption method. A plant can be followed through its entire process of growth via internet. The project aims at consumers and professionals of the food business interested in the high quality of organic products. By [...]

Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Bari with the technical coordination of CIBI, the City of Andria presents the best organic extra-virgin olive oils from around the world in competition. An international jury of professional tasters from different olive oil regions in the world tastes and judges the oil. The days of the competition [...]

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 [...]

By Malcolm Moore, The secretive world of Italian olive oil will be laid bare after the government insisted that every bottle should show where it comes from. Large olive oil brands, such as Filippo Berio and Bertolli, have long cultivated the image that its oil comes from rustic, rolling groves in the Italian countryside. Instead, [...]