The Australian Olive Industry

This bestselling manual is the definitive guide to olive production in California. This 180-page manual is fully illustrated with 40 tables, 19 line drawings, and 36 charts, and 100 color and black and white photos. The most notable additions to this edition include a new chapter on deficit irrigation, a greatly expanded chapter on olive oil production, and coverage of four new pests, including the olive fly. Includes production techniques for commercial growers worldwide - from orchard planning and maintenance to harvesting and postharvest processing. Contains information on pollination, pruning for shaker and vertical rotating comb harvest, mechanical pruning, deficit irrigation, mechanical harvesting methods including trunk-shaking and canopy contact harvesters, postharvest handling and processing methods, and olive oil production. Also includes information on new pests including olive fly, oleander scale, olive mite, and black vine weevil.

Australia has the ideal conditions for growing and processing table olives. In a climate where the majority of table olives eaten by Australians are imported, real opportunities exist for a domestic table olive industry. Attention to quality and safety will ensure that Australian table olive producers are in a position to tackle and make inroads into the international export market. The aim of this manual is to provide olive growers and processors with internationally based guidelines for ensuring the quality and safety of processed table olives. This manual covers all aspects essential for the production of safe, nutritious and marketable table olives including site selection, recommended varieties, pest and disease control, primary and secondary processing, and quality and safety testing.

The Olive Industry in all its forms is exciting and seductive. It entices growers, attracts researchers, beckons retailers and lures food lovers.Growers decide to grow olives for a variety of reasons. As with any agricultural endeavour, olive farmers (or most of them) grow olive trees to make olive oil or produce table olive products to earn a profit. Sometimes that ambition works out? sometimes it just becomes a labour of love.Olive growers are often people looking at the spectre of retirement and concluding that growing olives would suit that timeframe of their lives. Others are younger families where the country lifestyle fits in with their plans. Often, family traditions are upheld. Olive tree growing can be tucked alongside other crops, such as mangoes or avocados - these ancient trees don't need you 24/7. Connection to the land is a large pull. Costs from the growing process are a tax deduction. The challenge of producing olive oil or table olives to share and sell is inviting to some.'Big' players in The Olive Industry have come and gone, whereas small scale olive growers continue to serve consumers and support local communities.This book contains the reflections and experiences of people who have toiled in and around The Olive Industry. They combined to revitalise the Industry in Western Australia, 1995-2020. As Professor Stan Kailis writes in the first chapter of this book, The Mediterranean Diet-the doorway to living healthier and longer, "This is only possible where extra virgin olive oil together with natural foodstuffs underpin the daily pattern of the diet."

This manual provides olive growers and processors with nationally accepted guidelines for ensuring the quality and safety of processed table olives. Covers all aspects essential for the production of safe, nutritious and marketable table olives.

The Australian table olive industry/trade currently has no nationally accepted guidelines for ensuring the quality and safety of processed table olives. The aim of the project was to scope the Australian table olive industry, compile quality and safety data by laboratory investigation and from the literature, and prepare a manual for olive growers and processors. This report covers these objectives from both national and international viewpoints and the manual is presented as a second publication from this project.