May 8, 2015 | Australia, Olive Oil News, Table Olive News
Olive growers in the Canberra region are picking early with a higher than expected harvest. The excellent conditions are likely to make for superior table fruit and greater numbers for processing into oil. However, with the fruit ripening early, winds that hit the...
May 8, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
An extra virgin olive oil produced in France and which the grower claims to be produced entirely without insecticides and fertilisers (went) on sale in the UK (last) week. The product differs from most commercially-produced olive oils, which largely rely on...
May 8, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
After successfully extracting 8,000 litres olive oil from just one of the 11 state-owned olive farms, the Rajasthan government is now hoping to take a bigger leap and titillate taste buds of the tea-savouring nation with olive tea. The government has already sent...
May 8, 2015 | NZ, Olive Oil News, Seminars/Conference
Olives New Zealand is co-ordinating a series of visits in New Zealand by two American professors who are on sabbatical studying the chemistry and health benefits of olive oil. Pat O’Hara is Professor of Chemistry at Amherst College, New England. Her husband Richard...
May 8, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The dreaded Xyllela fastidiosa bacterium which is blamed for the infection of tens of thousands of olive trees in southern Italy has been detected for the first time in France.
Apr 29, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The Kingdom’s olive oil production increased by 20% in 2014, according to official figures released on April 1, which indicated that the northern Governorate of Irbid accounted for nearly one-third of total production. The Department of Statistics (DoS) report...
