Η φωτογραφία αυτής της δημοσίευσης δείχνει που προσπαθούμε, αγωνιούμε και τελικά παράγουμε ένα ποιοτικό 100% βιολογικό προϊόν.

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During the early period of rhizoma olive farms’s business plan we began hiring personnel, very cautiously with four characteristics I value most highly: talent, character, functional intelligence (beyond basic intelligence, the ability to think on your feet, quickly and spontaneously), and an eagerness to adopt our way of doing thing; from the early harvest, the collection in plastic boxes, the immediate trasport to a 2-phase oil mill, the storing and finally the bottling. In other words our philosophy. Others follow RHIZOMA, based on the quality of our PRODUCTS rather than the magnitude of your declarations.

The picture in this post shows the geomorphology of the area that we strive to bring you the best of our efforts, to produce an authentic greek 100% organic product.

Κατά τη διάρκεια αυτής της περιόδου ο αγροτο-διατροφικός τομέας έχει επίσης επωφεληθεί από την μεγέθυνση της παγκόσμιας αγοραστικής αλυσίδας. Σαν αποτέλεσμα αυτού οι εξαγωγές έχουν διπλασιαστεί και η ΕΕ έχει ενισχυθεί για να γίνει ένας ανταγωνιστικός προμηθευτής σε όλα τα επίπεδα της αγροτικής παραγωγικής αλυσίδας. Ο τζίρος της ΕΕ στον τομέα αυτό έχει φτάσει τα 410 δισ. ευρώ το 2015. Η γεωργία και οι συναφείς δουλειές απασχολούν σχεδόν 44 εκατομύρια ανθρώπους στην ΕΕ.

Η παραγωγή και μεταποιητική  αλυσίδα τροφίμων έχει το 7.5% αυτών των δουλειών και το 3.7% της συνολικής προστιθέμενης αξίας στην ΕΕ.

Η ΕΕ εξάγει μια μεγάλη γκάμα προϊόντων από όλα τα μέρη της αξιακής αλυσίδας που επαληθεύει την ελαστικότητα της ΕΕ στον αγροτο-διατροφικό τομέα.

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Over the last decade, the reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy have incentivised the European Union (EU) agri-food sector to improve its competitiveness by focusing on the market signals (European Commission, 2016a). During this period, the EU agri-food sector has also benefitted from the expansion of global value chains.

As a result, the values of agri-food export have doubled and the EU has strengthened to become a competitive supplier at all levels of the agricultural value chain. The output of the EU agricultural sector was valued at € 410 billion in 2015.

Agriculture and the food-related industries and services together provide almost 44 million jobs in the EU. The food production and processing chain accounts for 7.5% of employment and 3.7% of the total value added in the EU. The EU exports a wide range of products from all parts of the value chain, which demonstrates the versatility of the EU agri-food sector.

Source:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filippo_Fagioli/publication/316685384_From_the_farm_to_the_agri-food_system_A_multiple_criteria_framework_to_evaluate_extended_multi-functional_value/links/590c4992aca272db9ca61324/From-the-farm-to-the-agri-food-system-A-multiple-criteria-framework-to-evaluate-extended-multi-functional-value.pdf

The purpose of the London IOOC 2017 is:
a) To inform olive-growers, oil producers, oil-pressers, processors and retailers, who distribute their standardized products legally, to preserve and to ameliorate the quality of their branded product by promoting high quality olive oil in every aspect of the spectrum of its use and consumption.

b) The promotion of the knowledge of the particular value and of the healthy/nutritional aspects of olive oil to new consumers of young age (schools), to professional pastry chefs, artisans, with emphasis to gastronomy & culinary art schools and to restaurants.

c) The promotion of the diversity of varieties and of the high quality of olive oils produced with the aim of advancing the knowledge of their tasting differences.

You can see more in the competition’s website:

http://www.aristionawards.co.uk/results-awards/

How Responsive Are They?

If your supplier takes for ever to answer to you basic question, if they are unavailable to answer to your questions as soon as possible and if they are not helpful in the sense of leaving you with the right answers to make the right choices, they are probably a bad match for you. The supplier must always have an export rep that will always be there when you need them. Someone who’s opinion you trust, and who gives you the space to make your own decisions.

Are they commited to product quality?

Your supplier should be more committed to product quality than you, or more. This will make your job a lot easier. They should also have their own quality programs in place, which should be audited routinely. Common paperwork include:

• HACCP Plans
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
• Biocertification papers in all languages required
• DPO certifications (if they produce a PDO product)
• Non-GMO Project Verified Audits

Are they priced competitively?

This is one of the most obvious topics that people are often over-focused on. Price isn’t everything — any anyone who’s struggled with a cheap supplier (“cheap” in more ways than one) will attest to that.  But that said, it is important to have a supplier who is “within market”. Meaning that if you get a quote from multiple suppliers, the one you go with is in the same general range as a few of the others. In the olive oil world, this means that their business model is set up in the same way and that they have the same buying power. You’ll find these suppliers that are within the same price range will all vary back and forth over time — sometimes one will be higher than the other, and the next year it will chnge. This gives you the opportunity to remove price from the immediate evaluation and look at the bigger picture knowing that pricing should equal out to about the same no matter who you choose.

Do they offer a specialised or a broad topic?

In other words does the supplier that you work with carry lots of different olive oils, or are they really good at only one particular thing?

Have they been in any international olive oil competitions?

This goes without explanation. The more exposed a supplier is to international standards the more reliable they are likely to be.

These are some ideas on how to pick up the right supplier.”Right” in the sense that it suits your business plan and they are flexible enough to share your goals and aims for future cooperation.

The transport and tourism infrastructures in Switzerland are amongst the best in the world making it very easy and comfortable to travel around the country. Major Swiss cities are all located within one to three hours by train or car! Centrally situated in Europe, Switzerland gives you the opportunity to visit and experience other European cities, such as Paris, London and Milan.

Θα υπάρχει ένα σεμινάριο γευσιγνωσίας με τους συμμετέχοντες να έχουν τη δυνατότητα να δοκιμάσουν διαφορετικές γεύσεις από όλη την Τουρκία και όχι μόνο. Θα προβληθεί το ντοκυμαντέρ του Nilgün Yanık Emiroğlu και Ramazan Emiroğlu  (Αθάνατη Ελιά), γύρω από την ιστορία της ελιάς. Θα υπάρχουν ομιλίες γύρω από την αέναη σχέση ανθρώπου και ελιάς, και την οικονομία γύρω από τον μαγικό καρπό και τα παράγωγα του.

Όλα αυτά θα γυρίζουν γύρω από τις ελαιοπαραγωγικές χώρες της Μεσογείου, τη γεωγραφία, τις ποικιλίες και άλλα θα γίνουν στις 28 Απριλίου. Θα γίνουν σεμινάρια στις 29 Απριλίου, γύρω από την καλλιέργεια και τις καινούριες γεωπονικές μεθόδους καταπολέμησης ζιζανίων, αποκαλύπτοντας τρόπους μείωσης του κόστους καλλιέργειας με τη χρησιμοποίηση νέων τεχνικών, φιλικών προς το περιβάλλον.

Περισσότερα στον ακόλουθο σύνδεσμο: http://olivtech.izfas.com.tr/press-release

Turkey`s newest and most modern exhibition center Izmir Fair Will open its doors to the world for the 7th Olive, Olive Oil, Milk, Dairy Products and Technologies Fair on April 26th through 29th 2017.

OLIVTECH 2017 fair will enrich its product line with a new addition of Dairy Products, Fermented Products and Technologies under the name of “Gourmet Izmir”

Olive Oil Tasting Workshop” organized for the first three days of Fair. Participants of the tasting workshop will also receive participation certificate. Visitors that will participate in Tasting Workshop can make their pre-registration from the website of the Fair. The documentary “Ölümsüz Z.” (Immortal O.) poetically presenting the history of olive and shot by Nilgün Yanık Emiroğlu and Ramazan Emiroğlu will be shown on the first day of the Fair. Seminars consisting speeches on the topic of “Olive and Human” in which ideas about the importance of “Economy of Edible Olive and Olive Oil” by associating it with countries’ geographies and locations will be shared, will be organized on April 28. Seminars in which information exchange about “Olive Farming” and “Olive Oil, Edible Olive and Quality” revealing great efforts for fields and specifics of olive farming will be made, will be organized on April, 29. Events in which Prof. Dr. Ramon Aparicio and President of USA AFI.

You can find more in the following link: http://olivtech.izfas.com.tr/press-release

• Στοχευμένος αριθμός hosted buyers εξωτερικού, markets, εμπορικά καταστήματα, παντοπωλεία, εμπορικού κοινού από Ελλάδα αλλά και πλειάδα εστιατορίων, Ho.Re.Ca services και ξενοδοχείων
• Παράλληλες προωθητικές δράσεις για ενίσχυση των εκθετών και των προϊόντων τους (όπως: βραβεία κοινού, σεμινάρια, ημερίδες, γευσιγνωσίες, Olive bar, μαγειρικές επιδείξεις, καινοτόμες εφαρμογές προιόντων, media, masterclasses)

HOT NEWS: με χαρά σας ανακοινώνουμε ότι η 2nd #GODE 2017 τελεί υπό την αιγίδα του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης, της Περιφέρειας Κ. Μακεδονίας & του Φεστιβάλ Γαστρονομίας Θεσσαλονίκης

2nd Gourmet Olive & Delicacies Exhibition

Join the exhibition in order to:

• Expand your clientele
• Network with international and national distributors, retail and wholesale merchants
• Explore new business potentials and maintain the existing ones
• Showcase your new products
• Perform direct sales
• Communicate with chefs and gastronomy media professionals
• Promote your business through the contemporary means of communication employed by GODE.

Gourmet Olive & Delicacies Exhibition  (GODE) in order to promote the excellence of the Greek gastronomic heritage which is based on extra virgin olive oil.

We aim GODE to become one of the most important trading venues in the region by playing a leading role in facilitating small producers and promoting the benefits of consuming high quality olive oil products.