Jan 4, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
A debate between producers and agricultural organisations and the Italian government is raging over a draft legislative decree regarding sanctions for counterfeiting of olive oil and its origin (specified by the Regulation of the European Union 29/2012) that is being...
Jan 4, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
These last couple of months have been a roller coaster of speculation regarding Spain’s current and coming year of olive oil production. Average production levels, low reserves, atypical weather, and inexplicably low prices have all contributed to the uncertainty....
Jan 4, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business
Grapes might get all the attention, the press, the movies and musicals, and the interest of tourists, but in the Sonoma Valley, there’s another fruit that deserves a little love too. That would be the olive.
Jan 4, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The Prosecutor of Lecce, Cataldo Motta, with public prosecutors Elsa Valeria Mignone and Roberta Licci, issued an urgent seizure order, executed today by the State Forestry Corps, to prevent the further felling of olive trees ordered by the EU to combat the Xylella...
Jan 4, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The European Commission has sent Italy a letter as the first step of an infraction procedure, since “Italy is not fully respecting the obligations in the plan to eradicate Xylella,” Enrico Brivio, the European Commission spokesman for health and food safety, said....
Jan 4, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
Rajneesh Bhasin, the president of the Indian Olive Association and managing director of Borges India, said there is a growing interest among his country’s 1.25 billion people in the health benefits of olive oil and a trend away from the high-heat techniques that...