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Olive harvest is taking place all over the country. Many olive groves are already harvested, especially in the warmer southern and western regions, while others still wait for the right time to pick the precious fruit, full of flavor and sublime oil. The olive diversity in Türkiye is very rich, so it is a good time to look at our wide range of olive varieties.

The Municipality of Thessaloniki has begun harvesting olives from the olive trees spread throughout the city in order to produce, for the first time, its own municipal organic olive oil.

Snowfall broke out at noon on Wednesday, September 11, in the Clennia area of Corinth.

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As can be seen from the photos of koronthostv.gr, the hail is quite intense and covered a large part of the olive groves, resulting in damage to the olives.

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With all eyes on the olive groves (as the price of olive oil is the protagonist and driver of food inflation), consumers are waiting to find out if this season holds more inflation. Although the signals are currently contradictory – as consumption is declining, but production is also declining due to the climate crisis – there is a trend of de-escalation. But that is one side of the story.

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

Dozens of stray sheep were collected by police officers of the Hania Police Department on the island of Crete, according to local reports on Saturday.

More specifically, 44 sheep were found unattended after having caused damage to olive trees.

Their seizure was part of ongoing initiatives by authorities in response to complaints of damage to farmland by stray animals.

At this time of year, the trees on Alan Risolo's land in central Italy should be groaning with olives. But extreme weather blamed on climate change has ruined his harvest.

"Production has fallen by 80 percent," said the 43-year-old farmer from Sabina, north of Rome.

An expert has suggested planting carob trees, known for their incredible resistance to fire, along forest borders to stop wildfires from spreading to larger areas.

As the climate crisis and unusual weather conditions strike the western province of Manisa's Akhisar, one of Türkiye's major olive producers, farmers are facing a staggering 87 percent decrease in harvest compared to the previous year, indicating an "olive disaster."

"It's a funny paradox with the carob tree: On the one hand it is neglected, and on the other it is deeply entrenched in the conscience of the Cretan people," says Korina Miliaraki, president of the Agritourism Union of Crete and the Epimenides Cultural Society of Panormos, and the individual spearheading a campaign to get the carob tree onto the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage o