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Islamabad: In the past two and a half years, almost 80% of work in specific areas has been completed on the olive cultivation project. Pakistan Agriculture Research Council Member Coordination and Monitoring and National Project Director Olive Dr Muhammad Munir said plantation of 310,000 olive plants over an area of 1,260 hectares out of the…
An olive grower on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has just finished her harvest, and all of the produce is destined to become olive oil. The crop was picked entirely by hand over a six-week period on Alexina Johnson’s farm, in the Obi Obi Valley. Ms Johnson said it was a bumper harvest.
Malaga’s olive oil is in such demand that it is now being exported to shores as far-flung as China. Montexaquez Oliva, a family company founded in Montejaque in the Serrania de Ronda three years ago is also marketing its liquid gold in India, Bahrain and Kazakhstan.
While idly flipping TV channels one rainy Sunday afternoon, I paused on a Food Network program featuring a tasting of sorts. The subject was not wine, as the participants were sipping their liquid from small, shallow cups. But if I were to shut my eyes and just listen, I would have been hard pressed to…
The dates have been announced for this year’s New Zealand Easter Show Olive Oil Competition, so mark them on your calendars now. Entries close on Monday, 11 August, with oils to be received by Monday, 18 August. Judging will be carried out on Tuesday, 25 August. This year’s competition will also include a new class…
The key dates for the AOA’s 2015 EVOO and Table Olive Competitions have been announced as follows: EVOO entries close on Friday, 21 August, with judging being carried out on Friday and Saturday, 4-5 September in Adelaide. Preliminary results will be uploaded to the AOA website on Tuesday, 8 September and final scores and judges’…
The 2015 harvest has commenced in Northland, with growers reporting pleasing crop loads. The Olives New Zealand Certification program, in conjunction with the oil testing service at Wagga Wagga (Aust), officially starts on 1 May. All ONZ members will received personalised certification packs, and the forms are also on the Olives NZ website for download…
It continues to be sold. I continue to be amazed. Pomace olive oil is what I’m talking about, in all its overpriced toxic splendour. The fact that something has the words olive and oil written on it, but is also freakily well-priced, is naturally going to have shoppers grabbing for it. What is surprising is…
If you’re in the Balonne and Border Rivers regions of Queensland, there’s funding currently available to help understand and develop markets. The Queensland Government’s High Value Horticulture Value Chains project is offering a co-investment funding scheme, providing direct financial support to eligible farm and post-farm gate businesses to help stimulate development of new high value…
Attendee registrations have now opened for the Naturally Good Expo, a business event for the certified organic and natural products industry. The expo is not open to the general public; it is strictly trade only for retail buyers, distributors, importers/exporters, producers, processors and suppliers of certified organic, natural and free-from food and beverages, supplements, beauty…