North East Victorian growers are exploring regional opportunities for branding olive oil.
By Kim Woods,
Tree plantings have stabilised in the region, which produces up to 400,000 litres of oil a year, following a decade of rapid expansion.
Those original trees are now reaching maturity and growers are searching for markets to soak up increased production.
Corowa grower Paul Trevethan said the domestic market was saturated and Australian growers had not achieved import substitution.
“There is a need to identify opportunities for marketing the quantity of oil that is surplus to the amount sold through specialty outlets,” Mr Trevethan said.
In response to the issue, North East growers are working with the Victorian Department of Primary Industries to explore new marketing opportunities.
DPI senior agribusiness development officer Kristy McMahon said olive production in Victoria was expanding but many growers lacked critical mass to take advantage of potential markets.
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Galway fairtrade company helps special needs children in Gaza
BY Declan Varley,
Irish Quaker Faith in Action and Mount of Olives Imports combine to support special needs school in Gaza.
A Galway-based company set up to sell Palestinian Fairtrade olive oil in Ireland is supporting a special needs school in Gaza with funds to purchase speech lab equipment.
The help will ensure that many children with hearing and speech problems will get treatment that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
The company, Mount of Olives, was established by well-known Galway-based activists Niall Farrell and Richard Kimball and re-invests the profits back into schools and youth projects in the West Bank and Gaza.
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EU to help consumers identify top quality olive oil
By Jeremy Smith,
Europe’s olive oil producers may soon have to mark their best-quality brands with origin labels to stop consumers being misled about where the oil comes from, EU officials said on Friday.
Next week, EU experts will vote on whether to make origin labelling compulsory for virgin and extra virgin olive oils. If they agree, the World Trade Organisation would be informed and, if there are no problems, the rules would enter force next July.
The idea is to make it clear to consumers if a bottle of oil has been made from olives from one EU country or is a blend that may include oil produced outside the European Union — Tunisia, Morocco and Syria, for example, are all important producers.
Even so, the European Union remains the world’s leading olive oil producer, accounting for 80 percent of output and around 70 percent of consumption. Spain, followed by Italy and Greece, are the top producers worldwide.
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Woman charged in alleged olive pit scam
Authorities say a Waukesha, Wis., woman allegedly stole more than $25,000 from her employer by falsely claiming olive pits had cracked people’s teeth.
Ellen J. Schroeckenthaler, 52, who worked for the Seville olive importing company in Waukesha, allegedly filed the false claims in other people’s names, then filled out company checks and had acquaintances cash them for her, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
A complaint filed Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court alleges Schroeckenthaler in all issued six checks involving false claims of broken or cracked teeth, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Schroeckenthaler, who is accused of stealing the money between January 2002 and April of this year, allegedly confessed to the scheme, saying she wanted to help her son with his college expenses and her unemployed brother-in-law.
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Olive oil had a large number of usages in ancient Greece
The research, conducted by Adelphi Universitys Anagnostis Agelarakis, has outlined the use of olives and olive oil in antiquity, ancient and traditional cultivation methods, and olives and human nutrition and health.
Olive oil was not only considered as a health product in ancient Greece, but something that had in essence a divine power embedded in it – defined in a pragmatic way, not in a occult or abstract way.
It was a gift of the goddess Athena to the Athenians, therefore, it had the emblematic presence of the goddess.
It was not only used in the Olympic Games to anoint the athletes, but whenever somebody would be in the gymnasium or the palaestra, they used to apply olive oil on their body surfaces.
The people of that time period had a particular type of scraper (strigil) that they used to then collect all the olive oil and sweat and so on that had accumulated on their skin surface.
Olive oil was also considered a necessary item for daily sustenance.
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