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Everybody knows that a Mediterranean diet is good for your health, and many equate this benefit with the heavy use of olive oil. But what hard scientific evidence supports this widespread belief? (Diet books don’t count.) In the current issue of Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, University of Athens professor Antonia Trichopoulou, a medical doctor […]

The government has planned to enhance olive oil production and processing areas in 12 districts of Balochistan to bring 6,000 acres land for cultivation of olive orchards. According to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture sources, during the five years, 675,000 plants in these districts which are considered as low delta crop for mass propagation […]

Par M. Adjaout, Toutefois, la zone oléicole est située à majorité en région montagneuse, soit une superficie totale de 67% ce qui rend difficile l’entretient de l’olivier et autres travaux, la région de Lakhdaria dispose d’une superficie dépassant les 4 000 ha, suivie d’Ahnif, Mehedallah et Haïzer avec respectivement 3 700 ha, 2 810 ha […]

By Stevie Ipsen, An olive crop worth about $2,400 is reportedly missing after several men, posing as pickers from a local olive oil company, picked and drove away with 6 tons of olives. According to William Klarenbach, his mother’s 6-acre property on Flournoy Avenue consisted of manzanilla and mission olives that were simply loaded into […]

La production oléicole est estimée cette année (2007-2008) à 200 mille tonnes. La Tunisie, 4ème producteur mondial et 3ème exportateur d’huile d’olive en vrac, va produire, à cette fin, 1100 mille tonnes d’olives. Ce volume, reconduit pour la cinquième année consécutive, augure d’une tendance à la stabilité de la production. Rappelons que cette production a […]