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A number of olive groves in the Lower Hunter have nothing to harvest this year because of widespread damage from the olive lace bug.
Mike Wilson from the Hunter Olive Growers Association says the weather this year has been a major factor in the spread of the bug, which he estimates has destroyed at least [...]

In 1902, after completing his studies at Saint Illario Agricultural College in Genoa, Ferdinando Costa arrived in Cape Town to assist his brother Raphael, who had set up a successful nursery in Wynberg. After a few years, Ferdinando was able to obtain his own small piece of land opposite the new Fernwood Estate in Newlands [...]

In Spain, approximately 8.5 million kilograms of organic olive oil were put on the market in 2007. This quantity made olive oil the most important product regarding economic value and trade volume generated in the organic sector. According to the data of the Andalusian Committee for Organic Agriculture (CAAE), sales of this product increased by [...]

By Jim Downing,
Oroville-based California Olive Ranch Inc. plans to break ground today near Artois, Glenn County, on what it says will be the largest olive oil mill in North America.
The plant, which the company hopes to begin operating in October, will be able to process 76,000 gallons of olive oil a day, according to California [...]

By Greg Atkinson,
Last September, when I was in California, I enjoyed a picnic in the shade of some enormous old olive trees. The tables were covered with Provençal fabrics, and when we sat down to eat, we were greeted with bright green olive oil poured onto plates for dipping the artisanal breads that awaited us [...]

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 [...]

The region’s olive trees are bursting with fruit this year, after a low yield in 2007 due to drought.
The olive industry is looking up for Eyre Peninsula, with a record amount of olives, according to olive press operator and olive grower Peter Green.
Mr Green started harvesting his olives with the mechanical harvester he part-owns last [...]

By Lora E. Ide,
Beginning April 17, from 8 a.m. to noon, and each Thursday thereafter, there will be a farmers’ market at On Top Of the World. To learn more, visit the Web site www.circlesquarecommons.com/
farmersmarket/index.html.
After 12 years of growing the exotic trees, more often seen in California or in Mediterranean countries, the two believe they [...]

By Linda Hoffman,
Olive oil is delicious and healthy, containing a monounsaturated fat, needed antioxidants and enzymes.
We need to look for expeller first cold pressed oil, which means it has been produced without damaging heat and chemical solvents. The term “extra virgin” by itself is no longer sufficient to guarantee quality, as some imports have been [...]

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 [...]

JAMES HIPKISS writes on the history, varieties and best ways to enjoy olives.
Most Malaysians are familiar with olive oil. It is now commonly available in ever increasing varieties in nearly all supermarkets and specialist shops.
However, the olive itself is not so commonly used here, and perhaps not so often seen in most Malaysian kitchens.
After all, [...]

Olive experts from the United States, Spain and Italy will teach the latest techniques in growing olives for commercial olive-oil production during an April 18-19 public short-course coordinated by the UC Davis Olive Center.
The course, to be held in Lodi, will begin Friday, April 18, with an update on olive-oil production in the United States [...]

The Texas Department of Agriculture reports the Lone Star State’s olive industry is poised for unprecedented growth in 2008, thanks to advances in olive tree production and an increased demand for olive oil. The industry was first established in 1994 with roughly 20,000 trees on four orchards. Today, the number of olive trees has grown [...]

The European Commission has given Italy two months to explain why it obliges olive oil producers to mark the origin of the olives on product labels in contravention of E.U. laws, a spokesman said Friday.
“As far as we are concerned, that is not in conformity with European legislation, where voluntary labeling is possible but not [...]

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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 [...]

A Spanish rehabilitation centre is using olive harvesting as part of its therapy to help substance addicts.

Francis Arjona, founder of the Good Samaritan Drug Rehabilitation Centre near Pozoblanco in Southern Spain, has had a number of run-ins with drug dealers since he began working with addicts. “I have had a couple of knives at my [...]

By Andrea Bennett,
When Clifford C. Graber first came here from Indiana, he lived in a tent on his land.
He built his house and planted citrus trees as the burgeoning industry that would later define the region was catching on more than a century ago.
It was a different fruit, though, that would occupy Graber’s interest, delight [...]

Western Victorian olive groves will yield 1000 per cent more than last year.
Drought in 2007 meant fruit couldn’t set on the trees.
Grove owner Deirdre Baum, from Laharum, says this season the trees are healthy and bearing fruit because of timely rain.
“This year, the trees have had bit of rain at the critical time and so [...]

Article by Nicole Visschedyk,
Photo by Peter J. Thompson,
If you think the new Olive and Olive Oil shop is the ultimate in niche shopping, consider this: Not only is every item in the store olive-based, but it all comes from one small village in Northern Turkey.
Mehmet Uzel, who opened Toronto’s first olive-only store just off [...]

Once ranking forth after Spain, Italy and Greece, Turkish olive oil production suffered a setback. Now it ranks sixth after Syria and Tunisia. As olive oil consumption is on the rise world wide globally, efforts are underway to increase Turkey’s share in global production. But the necessary transition to modern harvesting is slow and 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 [...]

“OLIVAGANDO”, a cultural event scheduled for Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 November 2007,is organized by the Industry Department of the Municipality of Magione and sponsored by the Umbria Region.The event includes workshops, a conference and gastronomy stands
The conference focuses on the prospects of olive growing in the Trasimeno area, workshops and entertainment for children, a [...]

By Lisa McKinnon,
In many parts of the country, a holiday home tour would be just that: a tour of homes. Ticketholders would march past gardens barren of leaves and flowers, or just plain covered in snow, in order to get to the main, preferably heated, attraction.
Not so in California and, in particular, Ojai.
Those attending this [...]

By Kerana Todorov,
The two Napa Valley chefs — Fox works at Napa’s Ubuntu and Cognetti is executive chef at St. Helena’s Tra Vigne — will receive a delivery of freshly-pressed “olio nuovo” this week from the Dickson Napa Ranch, a hillside property high above Jamieson Canyon Road.
“I love it,” said Cognetti, who uses the freshly-pressed [...]

Naturally Provence, online French gift and home accessories company is gearing up for its first Christmas with a great range of olive wood games alongside its growing selection of home and kitchen products made from the wood of the olive tree.
You’ll find all of your Christmas essentials on the site, presents for loved ones and [...]