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Registrations are now open for SITEVI, running from 26-28 November 2013 in Montpellier, France. A trade show for the vine and wine, fruit and vegetable, and olive-growing sectors, SITEVI provides a showcase for a complete range of machinery, equipment, products and services, including information on new techniques, marketing, sales and sustainable development. SITEVI has global…
Entries are up for this year’s Olives SA Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Table Olives Competitions, with 70 olive oil entries and 11 table olive entries received. This is well up on last year and reflects the excellent growing season and crop experienced by many of the state’s growers, as does the reported high quality…
Ryan Media’s offer of 50% OFF* to Australian subscribers for additional copies of the 2013 Australian and New Zealand Olive Industry Directory was taken up with great enthusiasm, and the publication is now sold out!! Each edition of this annual industry must-have provides all the up-to-date information and contacts you need to know and have…
Entries for the 2013 New Zealand Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards are closing soon, with the last date for receipt of entries Friday 6 September. All members with certified EVOOs should have received information on the Awards and others will as their certification results come through. Information and entry forms can also be downloaded here…
Registrations for events on the 2013 Awards Dinner weekend, September 28-29, close on 13 September, so it’s time to get moving if you haven’t booked your place. The weekend is being hosted by the Canterbury Regional Group, and includes a Tasting Seminar on Saturday led by head judge Sue Langstaff, followed by the Awards Dinner…
New Zealand’s main opposition party has called for a standalone food safety agency in the wake of international bans on New Zealand dairy produce due to recent contamination scares.
In the year to June 2013, almost three quarters of the country’s NZ$93m weekly average fresh produce expenditure went on supermarket fruit and vegetables, meat, bread, deli foods and fish.
More than 3,000 needy Greek families received a year’s supply of extra virgin olive oil from the country’s most popular olive oil brand. Altis, which is a household name in Greece, initiated a program to help make a difference for needy families during the country’s grinding economic crisis. Greece has the highest per capita consumption…
It is no longer just in the big cities of India where modern health menaces like diabetes are a major problem. The crisis is everywhere in the country as a culture’s traditionally starchy, sugary diet meets ever more sedentary lifestyles to form a perfect storm for a health care system on the brink. So there…
Visitors to Ayvacık captivated by the northwestern district’s culinary tradition can also peruse a museum devoted to holding the region’s cuisine together: olive oil. The private museum, the first of its type in Turkey, was established 13 years ago with displays that show how olive oil was produced with traditional methods while also displaying historic…