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Billions of flowers bloom every year in the peach trees of the fertile plain of Imathia, painting Spring pink

A comprehensive effort to safeguard olive trees unfolds in the northwestern province of Balıkesir as approximately 180,000 olive trees in 1,750 parcels of land have been taken under protection by the General Directorate of Foundations after meticulous aerial and ground tracking using the latest technology.

The distinctions in the top positions of the EVOOWR 2023 constitute a major reward for a Greek olive producer & for Greece that is highlighted in the global olive growing map

Cultural landscape is a complex term, defining the joint creation of nature and human intervention.

Climate change and invasive species are threatening production in Türkiye's agriculture sector, posing risks especially to cash crops, such as olive, hazelnut and pistachio.

The latest numbers from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) showed that the country's citrus production increased, while there was a steep decline in olive, hazelnut, pistachio and cotton production.

In an olive grove on the outskirts of Athens, grower Konstantinos Markou pushes aside the shoots of new growth to reveal the stump of a tree - a roughly 150-year-old specimen, he said, that was among 15 cut down on his neighbor's land by thieves eager to turn it into money.

With the pistachio harvest, referred to as "green gold" in southeastern Anatolia, approaching, landowners are taking unprecedented security measures to protect their valuable crop against theft.

Farmers in northern Greece are desperately seeking help abroad to get their fruit and other crops picked, as local youth disdain farm work and the once-reliable Albanian farmhands now prefer to chase jobs in northern European Union countries.

It’s only one of seven olive trees in the Mediterranean, which are believed to be over 2,000 years old

The proposal aims at strengthening the olive growing sector of the wider area of ​​Northern Kynouria, through the transfer of know-how, based on the creation of an integrated, coherent and at the same time fast-paced cycle of training seminars on olive cultivation and the olive oil sector, which will also include experiential training for the creation of an Olive Open Academy in the Municipalit