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This e-growing system is an innovating tool created by Adozioni Bioalimentari Italy to include the plant kingdom into a distance adoption method. A plant can be followed through its entire process of growth via internet. The project aims at consumers and professionals of the food business interested in the high quality of organic products. By […]

Large amounts of impure olive oil imported into Iran’s market coupled with poor-quality domestic products lead to customer dissatisfaction Chairman of the Agriculture Commission of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce Shahrokh Zahiri regretted that more than 90 percent of the imported olive oil, coming from Turkey and Italy, has poor quality. At present, about 100,000 hectares […]

Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Bari with the technical coordination of CIBI, the City of Andria presents the best organic extra-virgin olive oils from around the world in competition. An international jury of professional tasters from different olive oil regions in the world tastes and judges the oil. The days of the competition […]

GABORONE – The first commercial olive tree project in the country is in operation at the Glen Valley Production and Training Farm (PTF). President Festus Mogae launched the operation by planting one of the envisaged 2 500 commercial olive trees. The occassion coincided with the start of the National Master Plan for Arable Agriculture and […]

Lately there is a lot of talk about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. But what exactly is that? Epidemiologic studies have shown that many people from Mediterranean countries can eat fatty diets and yet not have a high risk of heart disease. Spaniards José Mataix of the University of Granada and Francisco Javier Barbancho […]