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Following Italy’s poor olive harvest and the resulting significant rise in the price of olive oil, there have been reports in national newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica of olive thefts taking place in olive-growing regions across the country.
You don’t really need an excuse to visit Italy and its beauty, such as the evocative town of Verona — where Romeo and Juliet lived and died, according to Shakespeare’s drama — and the picturesque olive groves that surround the Garda lake. In case you need another reason to visit Verona, consider the international wine…
The president of the Apulia Region, Nichi Vendola, sent an official letter on December 3 to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, to request a joint meeting with the director of the Civil Protection, Franco Gabrielli, and the Minister of Agriculture, Maurizio Martina to take stock of Xylella fastidiosa (XF) epidemic that has been scourging the…
“Let’s grow together“ is the name of the first Bi-communal Olive Festival and autumn fruit fair that will be held this weekend at Ledra Palace and the Fulbright Foundation in Nicosia’s buffer zone. The aim of the meeting is to celebrate the co-operation between the two parts of the divided island and find solutions to…
If you come to Italy, you are going to be eating some good food. This has been a common denominator for a while now. The reason isn’t due to the fact that Italy has a better climate for growing good food or that better food is available here. It’s a question of education — education…
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 weather has been great if you’re an olive fruit fly, and a bacterial blight that seemed to come from nowhere has led to the destruction…
The Council’s November 2014 newsletter released today reports that olive oil producers in Europe are expected to experience a significant 38-percent decrease, with Spain and Italy the worst hit, while Greece will experience a dramatic increase in production, and Portugal will not see a change compared to last year.
With the support of Turkey’s Ministry of Industry, the olive oil producer Nar Gourmet is taking a new step in the olive oil sector with a project that will bring the factory to the fields. Local olives from Hatay, Mersin, Antalya, Manisa, Ayvalık could be processed within just two hours after harvest by the company’s…
82% olive oil, 12% laurel oil and soda. There are only three ingredients in the world’s oldest soap: the soap of Aleppo. The product has been the same for centuries beyond the walls of the historic citadel of Aleppo, in Northern Syria. Being all natural without any synthetics or other additives, the soap of Aleppo…
The Capital Development Authority (CDA), which provides municipal services in the city, launched a “plantation drive” in collaboration with the National Agriculture Research Council (PARC). 5,000 olive trees will be planted during the first phase of the project which aims to beautify the city and increase green cover. Olive trees are initially being planted along…