It Is Feasible to Produce Olive Oil in Temperate Humid Climate Regions.

ABSTRACT: Worldwide olive industry has expanded into new climatic regions outside the Mediterranean basin due to an increase in extra virgin olive oil demand posing new challenges. This is the case of Uruguay, South America, where the olive crop area reached 10,000 hectares in the last 15 years and is intended to the production of EVOO. Uruguay has a temperate humid climate with mean precipitations above 1,100 mm per year but unequally distributed, mild winters, and warm summers, with mean annual temperatures of 17.7°C. Different agroecological conditions require local knowledge to achieve good productivity whereby the objective of this work was to show the feasibility and potential of olive oil production under our climatic conditions. For this the agronomic performance of Arbequina, Barnea, Franto

SUBMITTER: Conde-Innamorato P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6893176 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature