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About Olive

The olives are first exported from southern Spain at the time of the Romans.

Today olive oil is one of Andalucía, € ™ s major exports, earning the region millions of dollars a year.

Andalusia, which accounts for 75% Spanish production, grows most of the olives in the world. JÃ province in only produces more olive oil in Greece.

Dear to offer more than seventy million working days, it is widely accepted that Andalusia produces 20% of the total production of olive oil in the world.

It all started at the time of the Romans, who acquired a taste for oil from the western extremities of his empire.

Since then it has been proved that the first example of modern marketing began when the different families exports its own brands of olive oil in a trademark or logo.

This was confirmed when archaeologists found remains of pots full of names of the same brand in Rome.

The data on olive

1. The olive tree is an evergreen tree or shrub native to the Mediterranean, Asia and parts of Africa. The fruit is a drupe small 1â € "2.5 cm long. Olives harvested in green stage or left to ripen to a purple color.
2. The olive tree and olives are mentioned 30 times in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments.
3. Archaeological evidence found in excavations at Monte Testaccio indicate that over a period of two hundred sixty years or less, Rome imported about six thousand five hundred million gallons of olive oil, olive oil, of which 85% occurred in Andalusia. Oliva and production olive oil continued to grow during the Muslim occupation, survived the ravages and devastation of many wars. Olives were taken after the New World Spanish colonizers in the 16th and 17th centuries, and are now established in many colonial areas, especially in California and South America.
4. The olive tree was introduced to Spain for the first time by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC, and again by the Greeks between 600-700 BC.
5. Later, the Romans turned the production of olive oil in a supply industry empire with this precious resource.
6. Archaeological evidence found at Monte Testaccio indicate that over a period of two hundred or so sixties, Rome imported about six thousand five hundred million gallons of olive oil Ofa, of which 85% occurred in Andalusia. Olive and olive oil production continued to grow during the Muslim occupation, survived the ravages and devastation of many wars.
7. The fall of the Roman Empire led to the decline of oil production in most of Europe, but the south of Spain was to see an increase in the crop with the arrival Arabs, who brought with them new varieties and different production techniques.
8. Olives were brought to the New World by Spanish settlers during the 16th and 17th centuries, and are now established in many colonial areas, especially in California and South America.
9. It is estimated that more than 215 million of olive trees in Spain, of which 165 are Millon in Andalusia, of which 50% is in Jaén © ny 30% in Cordoba.
10. Spain, where whole is the world's number one producer of olive oil, producing on average more than 1.3 million metric tons per year, 50 percent of production Total World.
11. Green olives and black olives are washed with water to remove oleuropein, a bitter carbohydrate. Sometimes they are also soaked in a solution of food grade sodium hydroxide in order to accelerate the process.
12. At a recent meeting held in Jaen, Spain € ™ s oil production center, 300 scientists from around the world praised the health giving properties of olive oil.
13. Scientists praised their positive effect on aging, as well as promoting strong bones development. ailments is also seen as a key weapon in warding off Alzheimer € ™ s, cardio-vascular diseases and cancer.
14. It is hard to believe, but there is a GPS coordinate the registration of every single commercial olive trees andalucia.es € ™ s well the gravity of the oil production industry is in the south of Spain. And with EU grants funding for this industry only we should expect less from control. tight A group of farmers who recently tried to mislead the authorities by planting sticks and then the presentation of grants, didnâ € ™ t get very far!
15. Today, olive cultivation is the main industry for much of Andalusia, giving Alternate name Country of oil.

About the Author

Paul Whitelock is an honours graduate in Spanish and German, a former UK languages teacher and retired Ofsted school inspector. For the last eight years he has spent his time between Ronda, Spain and Warrington, UK. Since taking early retirement in 2005 he has renovated two houses in Ronda, one in Luxembourg and two in the UK. He now lives in the Serranía de Ronda in Andalucía and is a freelance journalist, translator and Plan B consultant. He can be contacted by email at paulwhitelock@hotmail.com or by telephone on (+34) 636 52 75 16.

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