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Entries for the autumn classes of the Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards (RMFFA are now open to producers nationally. The bi-annual awards (Autumn and Spring), are conducted by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV), to recognise excellence and promote specialty, artisanal and boutique fine food producers, as well as larger fine food manufacturers and…
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 that the falling price is due to a decrease in the export price for…
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 Greece, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The project was launched in November 2012 and was completed at the…
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 oil rose from 7.5 to 10 Turkish Lira (US$3.32 to US$4.42). Some Turkish olive producers are waiting before parting with their crop, hoping prices will…
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 drought completely, it will be a major step in the right direction for olive…
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 pushing up prices.
The leading Nordic fuel cell technology company PowerCell has announced a technology developing project to convert toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity.
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 social networks. That is the case of Miccione…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Sultanate of Oman declared the historical achievement: “The olive trees of Jabal al-Akhdar gave generously plentiful of their oil this season.”
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 of Agriculture and Forestry announced that the Central Inspectorate for the protection of the quality and fraud prevention of food products discovered the manipulation of…