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The visit was centred around the organisation of a workshop on fertilisation and cryptogamic diseases of the olive tree. The IOC delegation also had the opportunity to visit the Slovenian olive growing sector, conduct technical visits, participate in sector related workshops and meet with several high-level representatives, including the ...
The association took the opportunity to congratulate Lillo on his mandate and took stock of the situation of the olive oil sector, mainly in what regards EVOOs. The meeting participants discussed on an array of topics particularly affecting this category of olive oils, such as the question of early harvest EVOOs and the IOC trade standard, and the importance of ...
To address this situation, one of the largest olive plantation companies in the region, with more than 2000 ha, turned to NaanDanJain Ibérica and HPNow for help in a super-intensive plantation of young olive trees (2 years old) of 160 hectares. ...
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This association is entirely funded through the sale of their own products, such as T-shirts, bookmarks, crafts or books. Put an olive tree in your life Apadrinaunolivo.org ( Sponsor an olive tree) was created with the aim of recovering the olive groves in the area of Oliete in the province of Teruel. ...
Following the opening speech by the Secretary General of CIHEAM, Cosimo Laciringnola, the subjects addressed during the first day, which was presided by Mr Francesco Serafini, Head of the IOC Department of Research & Development and the Environment, and Ms Françoise Petter of the EPPO, concerned the monitoring tests carried out on the bacterium and its vector, strategies and ...
The International Olive Council (IOC) and the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), under the Memorandum of Understanding signed in July 2016, have organised a seminar on Xylella fastidiosa¸ the bacterium which, since 2013, has been causing the death of hundreds of olive trees in the Italian region of ...
Morocco: 5th edition of the International Forum on Olive Oil (Agro-Pôle Olivier (ENA), Meknès): conference highlighting the value of the olive tree biomass: technological innovation and the considerations of a new and renewable energy source. Tunisia: Celebration of World Olive Day focusing on the extension of the ...
Olive trees have a special place in the culture, economy, diet and even in religious ceremonies in Cyprus. Archaeological excavations have shown that olives have been part of the diet of the island’s inhabitants since the Neolithic period and that the olive tree was already widely grown at the end of the ...
The Commissioner also heard about the steps taken by the Executive Secretariat to align national legislations concerning protection against olive tree diseases and parasites. He took note of the joint IOC-CIHEAM seminar on Xylella fastidiosa, to be held in Bari (Italy), in the region of Puglia – an area which has been strongly affected by this bacterium ...
Mr Aboabat, the CEO of the company Al-Watania and Mr Sahbi Mahjoub from the Agromillora Group, provided information about activities in Saudi Arabia to develop the olive sector. In particular, they spoke about the development of what is currently the largest organic olive orchard in the world, with 20 million olive trees grown ...
Between 15 and 20% of the 17 million olive trees in Jordan are close to 2000 years old. Having been planted during the Roman era, they are nicknamed “the Roman olive trees”. ...
We now have evidence that, when the appropriate agricultural practices are applied, the carbon sink effect (or carbon sequestration) of olive trees through the biomass and soil is much greater than the greenhouse gas emissions for one production unit (one litre of virgin olive oil). ...
In the framework of its programme of activities for the first semester of 2016, at a project mid-term evaluation meeting with the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), the project implementing agency (Tunisian Olive Tree Institute) and the collaborating centres (the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Morocco (INRA), the Technical Institute for Fruit ...
The olive tree is one of the most widespread crops in the Mediterranean basin. ...
EU-wide emergency measures came into force on 19 May to deal with the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, the cause of a devastating disease in various plants including olive trees in Italy. Xylella fastidiosa is a quarantine organism in the EU. ...
Since mid-2014, Bellota has been collaborating with Apadrinaunolivo.org, an initiative launched by a group of young entrepreneurs from Olite, Teruel (Spain) aimed at recovering abandoned, centuries-old olive groves. With the help of new technologies, they are trying to help family farming and rural development in very deprived areas at risk of disappearing. Bellota collaborates ...
As they extend through the soil, the roots show a wide variation in the way they grow through the soil to exploit the available resources. Olive trees for example, have been known to extend their roots laterally several meters out from their trunk. ...