Peru: Pro Olivo creates a management group to promote innovation within the olive sector
The Pro Olivo Association, which is made up of Peruvian olive processing and exporting olive and table processing companies, has recently created the Management Group of the Olive Innovation System, whose main purpose is to promote innovation within the olive sector. The establishment of this Management Group has been possible thanks to the support of the INNOVATE PERU Ministerial Program and once the Pro Olivo Association has successfully concluded the "Technological Innovation Agenda for the Technical and Commercial Development of the Olive Tree".
AVA-ASAJA estimates a million euros of losses for hailstones in 700ha of vine, olive and almond trees
The intense storm of hail that discharged in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 6th, in the region of Utiel-Requena has caused damages worth one million euros in an area of 700 hectares of cultivation of vineyard, olive and almond tree, according to the estimates of the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA). The municipal terms that have been more punished have been Jaraguas, Venta del Moro, Villargordo del Cabriel and Casas del Rey.
I International Olivo Symposium in hedge, a direct look at the reality of this crop
The I International Symposium of the olive grove in hedge, Olint, recently celebrated by the University of Córdoba (UCO), Agromillora and Olint, technical magazine of Agromillora Iberia, represented a golden opportunity to obtain a more direct and close knowledge of the reality of this crop Super-intensive. An event that attracted more than 600 professionals from the sector, who gathered in the Aula Magna of the Campus Rabanales of the UCO.
The city of Olivenza will host on April 27 the IE Forum on intensive and super intensive olive
Interempresas Media, together with the advertising agency Clúster Marketing & Comunication, will celebrate the IE Olivar Forum on April 27th, with the collaboration of Apag Extremadura ASAJA, CTAEX and CICYTEX, and will focus on the intensive and super intensive olive grove. Under the title 'Olivar, incombustible cultivation', this event will be held in the Convento San Juan de Dios of Olivenza (Badajoz) and will bring together experts from the olive sector of Spain and Portugal who will share all their knowledge and experience on the particularities of this type of culture.
UPL presents its copper-based solutions for the olive grove
By Juan Herrera
Copper has been consolidated as a basic active…
Good prospects of quality and price in the final stage of the olive campaign
Olive harvest forecasts in the final stretch of the campaign are optimistic, with a value-for-money ratio that the Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos (COAG) calls "balanced and sustainable".
UPA demonstration in defense of mountain olive groves
The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) will manifest on Thursday, June 30th, at the gates of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA), to claim for a top aid PAC of 150,000 euros and allocate the part the remainder of the budget to save the mountain olive groves and less productive. Indeed, on July 1st is the deadline given by Brussels to the Ministry and Autonomous Communities to revise the fate of coupled support CAP, which in the opinion of this organization, "are the only ones that could save the olive grove most needed."
BASF will train technicians of DCoop in olive growing and olive grove solutions
BASF Spain and DCoop cooperative group have signed a collaboration agreement by which BASF is committed over the next three years to provide training to technicians DCoop in key aspects of olive growing and olive grove solutions. The agreement, signed on May 11th by the Director of the Division of Crop Protection BASF Spain, Silvia Cifre, and deputy General Manager of DCoop, Rafael Sanchez de Puerta Diaz, includes updating the technical staff of the cooperative in such matters as new ways of controlling olive fly, integrated control tools repilo or physiology of olives and oil quality.
Hundreds of citrus groves and olive trees affected by fire in Bolbaite (Valencia)
The Valencian Farmers Association (AVA-ASAJA) has warned that…
AOVE is fashionable
The Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) finds its position as a premium product thanks to the Second Congress of Extra Virgin Olive Oil: "The Great Discovery" organized by QVEXTRA! This second edition of the International Congress held in Toledo, Spanish gastronomic capital 2016, has been the perfect frame for the signing, between QVEXTRA! and the Consorzio di Qualitá Extravergine (CEQ), an unprecedented agreement between Spain and Italy to support quality extra virgin with all the strength and firmness demanded by the sector.