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<pre>Sadoun,

I'm very familiar with the olive waste (jift) charcoal in Jordan, in fact,
I've even found it sold in a store here in Columbia, Missouri.

As for other uses of the jift, potters near the Queen Alia airport buy a
lot of jift to fuel their kilns, and many people in northern Jordan still
use jift as a winter fuel. The majority of people at mills that I talked
to used the jift for fuel rather than fertilizer. However, these were
not the mills doing the chemical extraction, so there may be a difference
in use there.

Peter Warnock
Dept. of Anthropology
Swallow Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 443-4203
(573) 884-5450 (fax)
pjwd29@mizzou.edu


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Sadoun wrote:

> HI Brian
>
> POMACE: or SANSA in Italian means "JIFT" in Arabic.
>
> In Jordan a few mills process their Jift to make charcoal. Most mills, sell
> their Jift, really cheap, to a processing plant to extract whatever olive
> oil left in it to make soap. Some sell it to cattle farmers for mixing with
> their animals feed.
>
> My family's owned mills, produce a combined 4,000 tons of Jift on average
> annually. I have once investigated the idea of producing charcoal as well
> on a commercial level. It is still an idea ;-)
>
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>
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