Producers confident of developing olive oil from sludge pit
Olive trees are being used to clean-up former mining land contaminated with heavy metals at Broken Hill, in far western New South Wales.
The trees are about to produce their first vintage of olive oil and those involved in the project are confident the oil will be free of contaminants.
Doctor Steve Flecknoe-Brown from the Broken Hill Gourmet Foods Cooperative, says the oil, from trees planted in a former sludge pit, will be independently tested.
“We’re going to get the NSW Department of Agriculture to assess not only the quality of the oil as it compares to other olive oils, but they will also independently, in a completely bullet proof fashion test it for heavy metals, so that we can prove our principle that this is a good way to rehabilitate heavy metal contaminated soils, not just here in Broken Hill, anywhere in the world,” he said.
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Egypt to donate olive trees to mark HM birthday
By Marisa Chimprabha,
Cairo – Egypt will donate 80 olive trees to Thailand to jointly celebrate HM the King’s 80th anniversary and to show the strong relationship with Thailand, Thai Ambassador to Egypt Noppadol Theppitak said Tuesday.
The delivery of the trees are expected to conduct around July, the ambassador said.
He was speaking during a three-day official visit of Deputy Prime Minister Saowanit Kongsiri to Cairo, starting Tuesday.
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Olive Oil in Afghanistan
Bottles of olive oil packed in crates at the factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad, city the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
The olive oil factory was built by the Russians in 1985, and has been operating since. The man who runs the factory, Ghulam Gul, said the factory is now seeking investors to help build up the olive oil business.
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Foire de l’olive OLVEX 2007 a Damas
Par L.A.
La 5ème session de la foire internationale de l’olive, de l’huile d’olive et des mécanismes de son extraction OLVEX 2007 s’ouvre demain dans la nouvelle cité des foires à Damas.
Plus de 50 compagnies spécialisées de la Syrie, de l’Espagne, de l’Italie, de la France, de l’Allemagne et de la Jordanie participent à cette foire.
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Olive triangles
Recipe by Tracy Rutherford,
Photography by Steve Brown,
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