[Syrie] L’industrie de l’olive “un aliment principal en Syrie”
L’olive représente un aliment principal en Syrie et sa culture constitue une source essentielle des revenues d’un grand nombre de paysans.
L’olive est plantée principalement à Lattaquié où la superficie cultivée est de plus de 42239 mille hectares et le nombre d’oliviers se chiffre à 8.946 millions dont 7.464 millions sont fruitiers.
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Greek olive oil comes out of the shade
By Christine Pirovolakis,
Tassos Golemis can be found every evening tending to his olive grove in the fertile valley of the Taygetos mountain where the ancient Spartans once hunted and trained.
For the first time, Golemis, together with his fellow olive-oil producers in the Mani peninsula, soft-pressed the region’s ripened olives of the Koroneiki variety and packaged the product under their own label.
With an annual production of more than 400,000 tons, Greece is the world’s third largest producer of olive oil after Spain and Italy, but consumers would hardly know given the country’s history of selling its product in bulk to its Mediterranean neighbours who treat and package the brand as their own.
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Product of Olive Oil Could Help Deliver Drugs
By Sara Goudarzi,
Sugar and olive oil may not mix well in a jar. But in the lab, scientists have used them to create a very tiny capsule that can be loaded with medicine or food.
The new “organogel” was made by adding a simple enzyme to activate a sugar, which changed olive oil and other liquid solvents into organic gels.
“We are using the building blocks provided by nature to create new nanomaterials that are completely reversible and environmentally benign,” said study leader Jonathan Dordick of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
When the sugar is activated, a compound that self-assembles into three-dimensional fibers is created. The fibers measure almost 50 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a human hair is roughly 100,000 nanometers wide.
When the fibers intertwine, the large amounts of solvent pack together and trap about 10,000 molecules.
“The development of new materials that are molecularly defined and chemically functional at the nanoscale is of critical importance to biological applications such as drug delivery,” Dordick said. “We are finding the natural world has provided tools to create these materials without the need to generate new compounds that may be harmful to the body or environment.”
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Nicoise vs Gaeta at Fancy Food competition
Time out for World Cup at Fancy Food competition
By Erika Markuys,
The results of the 2006 Fancy Food Show product competition won’t be announced until tonight, but the real star of the show became apparent at 4:4l yesterday afternoon when Italy won the World Cup.
France and Italy, who squared off in the title game, are the dominant international exhibitors at the annual specialty-food trade show, now in its 52nd year. At Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center, aisles upon aisles are devoted to cheese (Gruyere vs. Parmesan), ham (Bayonne vs. prosciutto) and olives (Nicoise vs. Gaeta).
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[Maroc] Hausse de 107 % des exportations d’huile d’olive
Les exportations marocaines d’huile d’olive brute et raffinée se sont chiffrées à 485,4 millions de dirhams durant les cinq premiers mois de 2006, soit une hausse de 107 % par rapport à la même période de l’an passé, selon les dernières statistiques de l’Office des changes.
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