HOW IS IT GOING IN… MEXICO?

The first territory where olive trees were cultivated outside their Mediterranean homeland In 1492, Spain started to plant olive trees in the Americas. From the port of San Lúcar de Barrameda, near Seville, the first stakes left for the Antilles and then for the...
REFLECTING ON THE PAST FOR INSPIRATION…

REFLECTING ON THE PAST FOR INSPIRATION…

Vasileios (Vassilis) ZAMPOUNIS studied Agricultural Economy at the University of Athens, Greece and Reading, UK. He has been working professionally in the olive sector since 1980. He began at Elaiourgiki (the national organisation of cooperatives of olive producers),...
HOW IS IT GOING IN… JAPAN?

HOW IS IT GOING IN… JAPAN?

Tomiko Tanaka graduated in Marketing and was working in Japan until she decided to make a radical change in her life. She decided to go the Andalusian capital of Seville. She arrived to learn Spanish, but soon found a great passion in Andalusia: olive oil. Today she...
HOW IS IT GOING IN… IRAN?

HOW IS IT GOING IN… IRAN?

Dr. Mehdi Hosseini-Mazinani, a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Hokkaido University, started his research on olive in Iran in 2001. Since then, he has carried out various projects in the field and led the establishment of the Iranian Olive Germplasm Bank in Golestan...
HOW IS IT GOING IN… ITALIA?

HOW IS IT GOING IN… ITALIA?

A bruschetta with Marco Marco Viola is the President of the Oleicola Division of Confagricoltura Umbria, in Italy. He is one of the largest producers of quality oil in the world and a straight shooter. His Moraiolo and Frantoio monocultures are models of inspiration...
HOW IS IT GOING IN… COLOMBIA?

HOW IS IT GOING IN… COLOMBIA?

José Gabriel Aranzazu Hernandez, the Director of Frutalia, a Colombian company dedicated to the elaboration, industrialization and selling of fruit products, gives us an overview of the olive growing in that country. In a small farm near Villa de Leyva, Boyacá...