The waste obtained from olive during the oil extraction process can be used to eliminate heavy metals from sewage or waste waters of productive activities.
Olive pits, pomace and remains (from olive tree pruning) present an outstanding capacity to retain the lead present in this water, which confirms their capacity as biosorbents for their application [...]
By Andrew Weil,
Q: I understand that a magazine reported that a lot of the olive oil from Italy is adulterated with lesser oils and described ongoing fraud in the olive oil business. Do you have any information about this?
A: I have read the article you mention, it reports that fraud remains a major problem in [...]
By Sandra Godwin,
The Boundary Bend olive harvest was under way this week after a halt caused by Timbercorp’s financial woes.
After a three-day shutdown, workers at Timbercorp olive groves at Boort and Boundary Bend got back to the business of harvesting olives last week.
The harvest ground to a halt earlier in the week as Timbercorp administrator [...]
Spain’s SOS Cuetara (SOS.MC) said on Sunday it would issue 200 million euros of new shares to plug a hole in its accounts after top executives were discovered siphoning off funds to buy shares in the olive oil bottler.
SOS said it was restating 2008 results and booking a loss after it emerged that chairman and [...]
By Melissa Allison & Amy Martinez,
This fall during the olive harvest in Italy, Dan McCarthy plans to have about 180 bottles of freshly pressed olive oil shipped by air from the 50-acre Tuscan estate of his former Queen Anne customers, Enzo Schiano and Claire Beliard.
To cover the airfreight, McCarthy & Schiering Wine Merchants will add [...]
By Rachel Hewitt,
The harvesting of Timbercorp’s giant olive crop will resume this morning after the company struck a $15 million deal to sell the fruit to its harvester.
The fate of this year’s crop – at two olive groves in northern Victoria – was uncertain after the company’s April 23 collapse.
The harvest must be completed in [...]
Olive oil production in WA is set to reach a record 2500 tonnes this year, with an increase in backyard growers keen to produce the golden oil.
Producers are bottling the 2009 “vintage” and have said there are not enough presses to cope with supply from growers.
Rises in production are being attributed to the tendency for [...]
By Qadeem Weyar,
Olive Oil production in Nangarhar restores this product to the country after a decade and half.
The factory is reconstructed by the Italian government, funded $800,000 for the project. In addition of the oil, olive soap is also being produced in the factory.
The industrial unit is provided with modern equipments and some technical labours [...]
Going green can mean picking the right olive oil and one expert on the oil says California’s premium olive oils are often worth the extra money.
University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Paul Vossen, an olive oil expert, says the state’s olive oil has a promising future if word of its many benefits is effectively [...]
By Sandra Godwin,
ONE of the world’s biggest single-site olive groves opened the gates to visitors last week to celebrate being named Olive Grower of the Year.
Timbercorp’s 2777ha grove at Boort, managed by Boundary Bend Estate, was recognised by the Australian Olive Association for pioneering the production of quality olive oil on a large [...]
The Department of Food and Agriculture is predicting this year’s olive harvest will be one of the best in years.
Harvesting near Dongara began at the weekend and will move further south to Gingin before wrapping up around June and July.
The department’s Dick Taylor says production is expected to rise by 3,000 tonnes to 15,000 tonnes [...]
The Australian Olive Association is predicting a 30% to 40% increase in olive oil production in 2009.
This growth of the industry has been underpinned by research and development done with the support of the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation.
Paul Miller, president of the Australian Olive Association, said research and development funded by RIRDC and [...]
More than a mere agricultural produce, the olive tree and the oil it produces, are deeply entrenched in Tunisia’s Mediterranean culture. With a production estimated this year at 165,000 tons, Tunisia is the world’s second largest olive oil producer after the European Union.
In spite of the fact that this year’s yield is inferior to [...]
La production mondiale d’huile d’olive devrait atteindre 2.633.000 de tonnes pour la campagne 2007/2008, indique un bilan provisoire adopté par le Conseil oléicole international (COI) lors de la 96e session de son assemblée générale ordinaire tenue du 17 au 21 novembre à Madrid.
Selon le même bilan (entre octobre 2007 et septembre 2008), établi sur la [...]
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