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First printed in La Stampa, Adapted by Ronnie Richards, Spring is a time of year when new products and initiatives prompt us to also examine the health of the extravirgin olive oil sector. Rankings, competitions and industry publications help to create a picture of the situation. Considerable political, media and market attention is focused on […]

By Robin Pomeroy, ROME, May 30 (Reuters) – Italy, which is pushing the European Union to accept that olive oil bottles should state the true origin of their contents, hopes to extend the idea to other globally traded food products, its farm minister said. In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, Paolo De Castro said […]

Reporting by Julia Hayley, Edited by Bernard Halloran, Spain produced 34 percent more olive oil in the season just ended, or 1.11 million tonnes in total, the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday. “That represents 8 percent more than the average for the last four seasons,” it said. Olive farmers also produced 500,000 tonnes of table […]

By Bernard Carpinter, The continuing drought in Hawke’s Bay is driving farmers to despair – but is excellent news for olive growers. While pastoral farmers are suffering, olive growers are celebrating large quantities, top quality and increased prices for their 2007 harvest. “The quality of the olives coming off the trees at the moment is […]

Wezi Tjaronda Windhoek Olive farming has great potential to become one of Namibia’s most important commercial crops. When all the olive trees growing in the areas of Swakopmund, Hochfeld, Kalahari, Omaruru, Otavi, Orange and Namibia central have reached full production, the country will produce around 74 400 litres of oil but there will still be […]