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Jewish volunteers help Palestinians harvest crops Texts & Pictures by John Murphy, The day is hot and dusty on this West Bank hillside, but 53-year-old Fuad Amer moves with the energy of a man half his age, stripping the fruit from his olive trees in giant handfuls, plucking others from the high branches with a [...]

By Jonny Paul, The New Statesman, a respected weekly current affairs magazine, is offering readers the chance to sponsor “the planting of three new olive trees in Palestine,” as incentive to take out a subscription to the magazine. Those who participate in the offer will receive a certificate to mark support for the campaign, and [...]

By Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff, To ensure a calm olive harvest this fall in the territories, compared to the last four tumultuous ones, the IDF and the Civil Administration have been working in the last month to ease tensions among settlers, Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists. “Our goal is to allow the Palestinians to [...]

Palestinian Authority Arab farmers will be protected by Israeli security during the olive harvest which is expected to begin within the next month, according to Army Radio. Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced Tuesday that anyone attempting to interfere with or harm the farmers as they pick their olives would be dealt with severely. [Source] Click [...]

Khan Younis Governor,Dr. Usama al-Farra, announced Sunday that the total direct agricultural losses estimated about US $ 4 Million in the wake of the recent Israeli incursions in the southern Gaza Strip (GS) city of Khan Younis during July 2006. In a statement, issued by the Governorate Information office, Al-Farra pointed out that 5500 trees [...]

A study conducted by the NWFP agriculture research centre says that the province can earn $3.5 billion annually from export of olive oil by bringing under olive cultivation the high rainfall areas of the province. “Two million acres of cultivable wastelands and uncultivated forest area can be brought under olive cultivation in the high rainfall [...]

Par Allison Kaplan Sommer, La demande en huile d’olive sur les marchés israélien et mondiaux augmente (car il a été prouvé que l’huile d’olive est bénéfique pour la santé et son goût est de plus en plus apprécié). Ce qui fut une tradition biblique et le centre de la vie dans beaucoup de villages arabes, [...]

TEHRAN – The cabinet has approved the Agricultural Jihad Ministry’s proposal for Iran to sign the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives. The ministry is now in charge of following up the case and completing the first step that is to sign the agreement temporarily. The agreement was first signed in 1986 and [...]

L’olive représente un aliment principal en Syrie et sa culture constitue une source essentielle des revenues d’un grand nombre de paysans. L’olive est plantée principalement à Lattaquié où la superficie cultivée est de plus de 42239 mille hectares et le nombre d’oliviers se chiffre à 8.946 millions dont 7.464 millions sont fruitiers.

Olive production in Syria reached at 844 thousand tons in 2005 and the number of olive trees mounted to nearly 80 millions where 841 traditional and modern olive pressures exist in the country, Director General of the Environmental Affairs Committee Akram Khouri reported Thursday.

Par Maya GHANDOUR HERT, EN LIBRAIRIE – « De l’olive au hammam », de Youmna Jazzar Medlej, illustré et mis en page par Joumana Medlej C’est l’histoire d’un petit fruit qui se décline en deux couleurs, le vert ou le noir (en fait il paraît que les olives vertes et les olives noires ne correspondent [...]

By Javed Afridi Delegates from the D-8 countries have highlighted the importance of olive and saffron cultivation in potential areas, saying that necessary resources required for research and development activities should be provided to stakeholders. The delegates said this at a two-day seminar on ‘Olive and Saffron Cultivation in D-8 Countries’, organised by the Pakistan [...]

PESHAWAR: The two-day international seminar on Olive and Saffron Cultivation of D-8 countries would be held here on June 12-13, said a press release of Provincial Oilseed Directorate on Thursday. Participants from members of D-8 countries Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey would attend the seminar. After the inaugural session, the participants [...]