Olive business
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The leading Nordic fuel cell technology company PowerCell has announced a technology developing project to convert toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity.
Following the case of 3,200 gallons of untraceable oil seized in Tuscany last month, another scandal arising from the scarcity of Italian olive oil was uncovered this week. The Ministry…
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…