03 Jul
Tunisia, the world’s fourth-largest olive oil producer, increased sales abroad by 15 percent to 89,300 tonnes over the first three months of the year, government data showed on Tuesday.
Olive oil represents half the country’s farm exports which account for more than 10 percent of total exports.
Tunisia sells 90 percent of its olive output abroad, [...]
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22 Oct
One of the world’s leading producers of olive oil, Tunisia is seeking to further entrench its positioning on the world olive oil market.
Tunisia ’s participation at the “2007 Anuga” (International salon of agro-food industries and technologies) Salon in Cologne , Germany is seen by observers as a step in that direction.
The Salon which ran from [...]
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06 Sep
By Núria Roig,
Extra virgin olive oil has become such a symbol of healthy eating that it is hard to believe that it was once accused of increasing the harmful cholesterol. It was a fat, so it had to be bad for us. Fortunately, we left those times behind and now olive oil and most fats [...]
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29 Aug
Tunisia’s olive oil exports more than doubled in the first five months this year to 113,200 tonnes from the same period last year, official data showed.
Olive oil represents half of the country’s farm exports, which account for more than 10 per cent of total sales abroad.
The value of Tunisia’s olive oil sales abroad soared to [...]
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