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<pre>Norm

That's quite interesting that you cannot get greek oil, labelled as such,
with any degree of easiness. A chap I know in Oz has two groves back in
Greece (his brother runs them) and he has started to import tonnes of the
stuff over here. I understand that the Greek Government offers a bounty of
$1/litre export subsidy so that the industry may grow.

I tasted last years oil and it had very pleasant organoleptic qualities and
came in at 0.5% acidity (mine was 0.4% and better organoleptic qualities).
He anticipates bringing in excess of 50 tonnes this year - and it's
definitely labelled Greek. A trogan effort.

Regards


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From: <ncorley@otenet.gr>
To: <OliveOil@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 6:09 PM
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> From: ncorley@otenet.gr
>
> Happy we don't have any of those hoppy things here Phil. They probably
> wouldn't last long anyway. Greek hunters shoot almost anything.
>
> The area our farm is in is all agricultural with a variety of crops. As
far as
> a concentrated olive industry I honestly don't know. Maybe one of the
> commercial Greek growers on the list can answer that one. To me the olive
> industry seems to be all over Greece. I find it irritating that Greek
olive
> oil, labeled as such, is so hard to find outside of Greece. Maybe the
industry
> will catch up some day. Most of our product is exported to Italy and
bottled
> there as Italian Olive Oil. The following is an excerpt from a page at
> www.oliveoil.gr, not a bad site for general info on the industry here.
Take a
> look at the habitat page. It might give you an idea of the extent of
olive
> cultivation here:
>
> >120,000,000 olive trees, 10,000,000 Greeks Almost 350,000 Greek families
> >involved in olive tree cultivation. That is small scale farming, the plot
coming
> >down from father to son; each separate tree linked to childhood memories;
> >each separate tree carefully selected for the specific plot; over 100
varieties
> >painstakingly created over the centuries to match local conditions:
temperatures
> >and rainfall on a monthly basis, soil variations, pest resistance, wind
resistance,
> >maturing time.
>
> Norm
>
> Norm Corley
> Athens, Greece
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/7003 - Personal Page
> http://radivision.hypermart.net - Business Page
>
> "I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian!"
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