Dec 12, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Olive business
Like many European countries, this year’s olive harvest in Turkey is not meeting expectations, reports the Turkish daily Hürriyet. Over the past month the wholesale price of extra virgin olive oil rose from 7.5 to 10 Turkish Lira (US$3.32 to US$4.42). Some Turkish...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
While many producers in Italy and other European countries ruefully sum up the small, if any, output of their harvest and are faced with a poor income, some others are satisfied with their results and proudly show the work in progress of olive picking and pressing on...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
Following Italy’s poor olive harvest and the resulting significant rise in the price of olive oil, there have been reports in national newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica of olive thefts taking place in olive-growing regions across the country.
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Seminars/Conference
You don’t really need an excuse to visit Italy and its beauty, such as the evocative town of Verona — where Romeo and Juliet lived and died, according to Shakespeare’s drama — and the picturesque olive groves that surround the Garda lake. In case you need another...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Labelling, Olive business, Olive Oil News
2014 will be known by Italian olive oil producers as the ‘black year’ – a particularly bad one for a number of reasons – among them the fact that the weather has been great if you’re an olive fruit fly, and a bacterial blight that seemed to come from...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
With the support of Turkey’s Ministry of Industry, the olive oil producer Nar Gourmet is taking a new step in the olive oil sector with a project that will bring the factory to the fields. Local olives from Hatay, Mersin, Antalya, Manisa, Ayvalık could be processed...
