International News/Trends
Shaun Weston talks to Filippo Berio UK managing director, Walter Zanre, about the olive oil industry and his hopes for the Filippo Berio brand. You’re relaunching Filippo Berio with new…
The International Olive Council has praised the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) for the effort behind its report on competition in the global olive oil trade but laments that…
(University of Arizona) students have obtained a UA Green Fund grant of roughly $7,000 to harvest olive, citrus and mesquite trees on campus. The UA already harvests mesquite trees to…
Rajasthan has managed to strike oil. Encouraged by the success of its pilot olive production project, the state government is planning to begin commercial extraction of the oil of the…
Wednesday’s vote by the European parliament on proposed limits for biofuels has the power to determine future prices of food stuffs like vegetable oil, according to a report by the…
Some 130,000 tons of olives are expected to be produced for packaging and oil production in the current Iranian year (started March 21). Announcing this, Alireza Esmaeili, deputy agriculture jihad…
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Olive oil imports into the crucial North American market have slipped slightly from last season, according to the latest newsletter from the International Olive Council. Imports of olive oil and…