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    Expoliva has been consolidated as only fair with international recognition of Andalusia

    Expoliva 2017 is consolidated, in the year of its 20º anniversary, as the only international fair in Andalusia to have obtained for the eleventh year this recognition, as highlighted by the president of the Board of Administration of Fair Jaén (Ifeja), Angel Vera.

    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.

    ENTEC solub product range expands

    EuroChem Agro Iberia has extended the range ENTEC solub soluble fertilizers with nitrogen stabilized, with the inclusion of ENTEC solub 11 + 5 + 30. Solub ENTEC fertilizers inhibit the process of transformation of ammonia nitrogen to nitrate nitrogen (nitrification), ensuring their stay in the soil for a certain period.

    Spain: Olive-pomace oil Interprofessional Organization is official

    The General Council of Interprofessional Agri-food Organizations (OIA) of Spain has approved the application for recognition of the Interprofessional Organization olive pomace oil. This new Interprofessional join with the existing ones in the olive sector, such as the Interprofessional Organization table olives and the Spanish Olive Oil Interprofessional Organization.

    Prepare the olive grove for a good harvest according to Bayer

    Keep clean the grove of weeds is an essential task to ensure a healthy tree and land in optimal growing conditions. At this time, it is essential to prepare the olive farms for next season. One of the main concerns of the Spanish farmer now is to control weeds that threaten their productions. Bayer is next to the farmer to provide the solutions you need at all times.

    Olive grove profitability wanted to adopt intensive systems

    Three quarters of the world olive is cultivated according to traditional methods. Only 26% of the surface of this crop is handled in intensive systems, which increases the production of olive oil. These are among the findings of an international study on production costs of olive oil by the IOC and coordinated by AEMO and GEA Westfalia Separator Ibérica. The report confirms major differences between the costs of one country to another. The oil yield is higher in the South of the Mediterranean and is drastically reduced in Latin American countries. The global harvest for the season in 2015-2016 will be between the 2.6 and 2.9 million tonnes. The world's largest producer, Spain is closer to 1.3 million tonnes. Argentina will increase its production to 25,000 tons, it is behind Chile (16,000 tonnes), United States (6,000 t), Peru (3,500 t) and 2,000 tons Uruguay.

    EU aims to increase the quota for olive oil that arrives in Tunisia

    Farmers the world's largest olive grove, Spain, und the rest of European too reject the decision of the Commission to increase by 35,000 tonnes tariff-free access of olive oil in Tunisia for two years, adding to the 56,700 t already granted to the North African country and amounts unlimited aimed at refining. In addition, there is a proposal for two years, which can not be justified by the situation of a bad campaign as before, and allows the permitted volume between once and no monthly quotas as in the current system.

    Spain drives innovation in the olive grove

    The olive oil sector, through the Interprofessional Spanish Olive Oil, promoted for years the momentum of the research on mechanization of UCO, which were preamble MECAOLIVAR project, for which the University has continued to benefit the support of the sector. The bulk of the funding is for ERDF (80%) through the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The new devices born with the aim of reducing costs in basic tasks like data collection, application of pesticides and soil management. The traditional olive grove, the most important in our country, will be the main beneficiary of these developments.