Fringe Fruit Crops in Texas
OliveOverview Production of Olive Productionin Texas Monte Nesbitt in Texas & California Olives • Olea europaea— • Family: Oleaceae • Fruit: drupe • Origin/Native area: (Mediterranean & Middle East) Turkey, Syria • Introduced to California by Spanish settlers – Mission San Diego (1769) • >2,000 varieties Olive Fruit Use (major uses) Oil Olives Table Olives • Varieties that have • Varieties whose high oil yield and shape, volume, flesh-to-stone ratio, produce fragrant oils firmness and ease of of stable quality and detachment make good taste. them suited for • Extra virgin-implies processing and mechanically pressed, eating. rather than chemically • Treated to remove extracted. bitterness and preserved by natural fermentation, heat treatment, canning, etc. World Production Annual per Total Olive Oil Production Oil Oil capita Country Production (tons) Production % Consumption consumption (tons) (2009) (2010)[48] (2010) (2005)[49] (kg)[50] World 19,735,617 3,269,248 100% 100% 0.43 Spain 7,923,000 1,487,000 45.5% 20% 13.6 14.8 liters Italy 3,286,600 548,500 16.8% 30% 12.4 Greece 2,285,000 352,800 10.8% 7% 23.7 Syria 885,942 177,400 5.4% 3% 7.0 Morocco 850,000 169,900 5.2% 2% 11.1 Turkey 1,290,654 161,600 4.9% 2% 1.2 Tunisia 750,000 160,100 4.9% 2% 5.0 Portugal 362,600 66,600 2.0% 2% 1.8 Algeria 475,182 33,600 1.0% 2% 7.1 Others 1,126,639 111,749 3.5% 28% 1.2 U.S.=9%, 1 liter Source: Wikipedia- http://faostat.fao.org/site/636/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=636#ancor Perspective on world olive oil production Pro- Pro- Consum Consum Exports Exports
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