NZ hoping to fill gap in olive market

A combination of poor weather and plagues of the destructive olive fly have laid waste to crops across Europe. Greg Scopas, who grows olives and produces oil at Wellsford, north of Auckland, said last year’s harvest produced a bumper crop and for the first time his company exported olive oil to Taiwan. Mr Scopas said despite this year’s harvest being significantly down on last year’s, he was hoping to cash in on filling the gap again.