Dec 12, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The regional union of agricultural farmers (syndicat régional des agriculteurs) in Sfax, Tunisia called for the National Oil Office (Office National de l’Huile) to take swift action to regulate the export price of olives. Faouzi Zayani, director of the union, declared...
Dec 12, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News, Research
An innovative European project has been studying ways to convert waste from olive oil production into electricity. Biogas2PEM-FC is an EU-funded industrial research project co-ordinated by PowerCell, a Swedish fuel cell technology company, and includes partners from...
Dec 12, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
Going from one extreme to the other, California farmers are welcoming what some are calling “biblical rain” that will bring relief from this year’s historic drought. While this single storm, hashtagged #rainpocalypse and #stormageddon by the locals, will not end the...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The growing popularity of olive oil has driven more intensive systems of olive tree cultivation, writes Kieran Cooke. But they are vulnerable to the kind of extreme weather that has brought pests and disease to olive crops across southern Europe, damaging crops and...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News, Research
The leading Nordic fuel cell technology company PowerCell has announced a technology developing project to convert toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity.
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...
