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Love eating olives in Spain? This is how the little green appetiser can be great for your health

OLIVES, scientifically known as Olea europaea, are virtually synonymous with Spain. On the sun-soaked terraces of the country’s ancient cities, the fat green fruit is

12 Mar, 2024 @ 13:01

Food & Drink·Health·Lead·Other News·spain

Picture On An Olive Trees And Almond Trees Field During A Sunny

Gang arrested over ton of olives filched in Spain’s Antequera

AN olive-stealing gang have been caught red-handed in Antequera, leading to eight arrests and a ton of olives seized. The arrests are the fruit of

13 Dec, 2022 @ 08:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Concerns over olive oil price hike in Spain as production halved

The olive, which has always been a symbol of the Mediterranean, is now starting to represent the harsh challenges of living in a hotter, dryer

29 Nov, 2022 @ 12:45

Food & Drink·Lead·National News

SEEDS OF HISTORY: SCIENTISTS USING OLIVE SEEDS TO PROVE BIBLE STORIES

OLIVES and Spain! Spain and olives! It’s no surprise to those of us who live here that the two are virtually synonymous. Chances are that

10 Jul, 2022 @ 14:58

Columnists·Jack Gaioni: Jack's Corner·Lead·National News

Olive farmers in Andalucia face ‘biblical plague’ that could wipe out next season’s harvest

OLIVE Farmers in Cordoba have warned that a ‘never seen before’ plague of leaf-eating moths could spell disaster for next season’s harvest. The Union of

28 May, 2020 @ 11:59

Cordoba·Lead

Farmer arrested after dumping DEAD worker in hospital who’d had heart attack during his first day picking olives in Spain’s Andalucia

He is then reported to have left him and fled, after which a doctor realised that the man he had dropped off was dead

18 Dec, 2019 @ 08:32

Crime & Law·Jaen·Lead

Report warns 20% of Spain’s olive farms could disappear within a decade

MORE than 240,000 Spanish olive estates could vanish in the next 10 years. Olive oil giant Deoleo has warned that international competition and the stagnation

22 Jun, 2019 @ 15:05

Environment·Lead

Outrage as MILLIONS of birds slaughtered by intensive olive farming before being served as TAPAS in Spain’s Andalucia

Millions more songbirds get vacuumed into machinery during intensive night-time harvesting across Spain and Portugal

7 Jun, 2019 @ 11:54

Environment·Lead·Sevilla

OLIVE WATCHERS: Spain’s Civil Guard to make surprise visits to olive oil factories after weigh-in controversies

It will serve to dispel doubts that have always existed on the part of farmers who are going to weigh their fruit after a hard

4 Nov, 2018 @ 16:00

Crime & Law·Food & Drink·Jaen·Lead·National News

British expat wins top UK food awards for Andalucia made balsamic vinegars

Creator of Fino Olive Oil, Susie Taylor, has won two prizes at this year’s UK Great Taste Awards for her Cordoba products

15 Sep, 2018 @ 10:27

Food & Drink·Lead·Malaga

The EU calls out the US’s decision to impose new high tariffs on Spanish olives

THE European commission has slammed the new high tariffs imposed on Spanish olives by the US as ‘simply unacceptable’. It comes as the US Department

11 Jul, 2018 @ 10:41

Business & Finance·Food & Drink·Mallorca

Andalucian olive farmers face increase in tariffs after American trade deal

OLIVE farmers in Andalucia are facing tariffs on up to 25% of their exports following a series of trade levies by US president Donald Trump.

28 Apr, 2018 @ 10:30

Lead

Olive stealing gang busted in Malaga posed a serious health risk to the public

A GANG dedicated to stealing olives in Malaga has been dismantled by Spanish police. Around 30 people are suspected of raiding olive farms and plots

10 Jan, 2018 @ 11:09

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Oil you need to know about Andalucia’s ‘liquid gold’

Andalucia produces 73% of Spain's olive oil

20 Aug, 2017 @ 08:48

Food & Drink·Lead

Donald Trump takes on Spanish olive industry over ‘unfair’ subisdies

US Department of Commerce launching ‘full and fair investigation of the facts’

18 Jul, 2017 @ 11:12

Lead·Mallorca

World’s largest olive oil company in Spain lost €179 million last year

A lower harvest due to a bacteria outbreak could be partly to blame

18 Mar, 2017 @ 17:05

Business & Finance·Food & Drink

Olive farmers form vigilante groups to stop criminal gangs poaching their produce

The national farmers union says they will do all they can to defend their stock

12 Jan, 2016 @ 12:01

Food & Drink

Spain-China ‘silk train’ to export food

The ‘silk train’ currently transports electronic and retail goods between the two countries

15 Nov, 2015 @ 17:51

Business & Finance·Food & Drink

It’s oil good border enterprise

They say money doesn’t grow on trees, and they’re right. But olives do

1 Oct, 2015 @ 11:10

Cadiz·Gibraltar

Global warming is pushing Spain’s climate closer to that seen in North Africa

With average temperatures expected to rise by as much as five degrees by 2050, Spain’s universally appreciated crops could be in serious jeopardy

15 Apr, 2015 @ 17:26

Environment

Fun olive facts

A few fun facts about olives to pull out at the next pub quiz

29 Aug, 2013 @ 16:30

Food & Drink

Spanish olive farmers feel the squeeze from supermarkets

Competition from emerging countries has also contributed to a 50 per cent drop in market value

9 Jun, 2012 @ 09:30

Jaen·Lead

Record harvest of olives needed to weather the storm

This year's bumper crop could could prove vital after low rainfall and frost damages predictions for the coming year

4 May, 2012 @ 15:29

Food & Drink·Other News

The hunt for liquid gold in Spain

As the olive picking season gets in full swing and three Andalucian olive oil producers are installed in the world’s best, Wendy Williams takes a

3 Dec, 2011 @ 10:37

Food & Drink

On the up for olives

Healthy Mediterranean snack now set to pip the peanut with UK consumers

31 Mar, 2011 @ 09:01

Food & Drink

Hard harvest

Andalucia's farmers left counting the cost of the wettest December for half a century

12 Feb, 2010 @ 12:24