India’s olive experiment take off in Rajasthan this week
Can India become a major producer and exporter of olive oil?
50,000 sapling of various varieties will be planted near Jaipur to find the Variety most suitable to India.
By Siddhartha Sarma,
The agriculture board of a desert state, a micro-irrigation firm, and an Israeli company think so. Later this week, 50,000 olive saplings of various varieties will be planted near Jaipur in Rajasthan, part of a field test to check whether this belief translates into reality.
After all, olive trees do not grow in India.
If the Jaipur experiment succeeds, the variety most adaptable to Indian conditions will be selected in June. And one million olive saplings of this variety will be sold to farmers in areas around the city by Rajasthan Olive Cultivation Ltd, a company in which the three partners behind the effort— Rajasthan State Agriculture Board, Plastro Plasson of Pune and Indolive Ltd—have equal stakes.
Plastro Plasson Industries (India) Ltd is a joint venture between India and Israel in the area of micro-irrigation between Finolex Ltd of India and two Israeli companies, Plastro and Plasson. Indolive is an Israeli firm, partly funded by the government of that country, that promotes agricultural techniques.
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Wimberley home to Texas’ first olive trees
The village of Wimberley is set in one of the prettiest parts of Texas and the soil here is great for growing flowers, fruits and vegetables.
One local farmer is getting some historical results; Bella Vista Ranch owner Jack Dougherty is getting the Texas soil to produce something rare in this part of the world: olives.
“This is the very first orchard in the state of Texas in history to get a commercial crop of olives. The story of olives in Texas dates back on a modern basis to 1982 when people began to look at olive growing as a commercial crop. And early orchards which were attempted were unsuccessful,” Dougherty said.
The problem was our Texas winters.
“I think the real issue is that the winters are not too cold, they’re too warm. And that really creates a problem because we see such extreme differentials in temperatures between the very hottest days and the very coldest days,” Dougherty said.
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IOTEX 2008 brings world olive producers to Jordan
Olive traders from 12 countries flocked to the recently concluded International Olive Products and Technology Exhibition and Forum (IOTEX 2008) at the Amman Motor Show to develop a cooperative spirit, exchange expertise and put the international olive industry on a higher pedestal.
Around 100 merchants from Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, Greece, France Turkey, Cyprus, Libya, Tunis, attended through 84 companies under one roof to discuss the machinations of olives and olive oil business.
The organizers, Petra Events Management, Comcra (Communications Craftsmen), Amman Chamber of Industry and the Jordan Olive Products Exporters Association (JOPEA), stated the IOTEX 2008 is the start of very important event to bring industry stakeholders together which will now be held on an annual basis in Jordan.
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Minnie Driver’s Pregnancy Craving: “Only Olives!”
“I feel really good, happy and healthy,” she told Usmagazine at the Prada Trembled Blossoms event in LA Wednesday.
“It’s great just to be able to eat!” the star of The Riches added. “No guilt! No guilt about anything.”
And her big pregnancy craving?
“Honestly, only olives,” she revealed. “That’s all I really dream about. I dream about enormous olives.”
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UC Davis launches center to nurture emerging olive oil industry
By Laura Kurtzman,
After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flowering of the California wine industry now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil.
The challenges to the emerging industry are significant. They include finding economical ways to produce fine oil, dealing with unscrupulous importers and educating unsophisticated palates.
While California olive oil makers have begun to use fine techniques developed in Europe to capture the pungent taste of fresh olives, the American palate may not be ready for it.
“This is the big challenge for all of us here in California – to expose people to this fresh fruit juice olive oil and not have them gag on it,” said Paul Vossen, a formative figure in the nascent world of California olive oil who is affiliated with the new UC Davis Olive Center.
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