Although owning a winery has over the past couple of decades brought greater renown than owning an olive press, there is no ...

The Italian Ministry of Agriculture is working on allowing the replanting of olive trees, up to now prohibited because of the virulent Xylella bacterium. EURACTIV Italy reports. The Italian ...

Rodio doesn't think his trees will be spared. MASSERIA BRANCATI, Italy (CN) — Corrado Rodio walks outside the thick stone walls of his family’s ancient olive oil mill and farmstead, the Masseria ...

Italy is determined to save Patriarch, a millennial olive tree which the forest fires in Sardinia have devoured, but has mobilized tens of experts to try and recover this rare botanic antiquity.

They've modelled the future worst impacts of the Xylella fastidiosa pathogen which has killed swathes of trees in Italy. Spread by insects, the bacterium now poses a potential threat to olive ...

On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D'Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked ...

In the last edition, the Island won first place in Italy and third in Europe with the majestic wild olive tree of Santu Baltolu, known as “The Patriarch” with over 3 thousand years of life.

The olive tree, Olea europaea, is an evergreen with a rich history. It is native to the Mediterranean region, specifically ...

Since it was first detected in olive trees in Puglia, southern Italy, in October 2013, it has been recorded in a number of other locations, including southern France, Spain and northern Portugal.