Sustainable and profitable: this should be the diversification of olive grove crops in Spain

The research team at the University of Córdoba presents its progress within the Diverfarming project in a conference on mountain olive groves The mountain olive grove is not going through its best moments. Its difficult mechanization makes it lose places in the race for profitability and the new super-intensive frames with mechanized harvesting that lower costs imply a decrease in the competitiveness of the traditional olive grove. However, ecosystem services such as their high potential for soil carbon fixation (and therefore climate change mitigation), biodiversity conservation or population fixation in rural areas can save it. This is the theme around which the 'Mountain olive groves: innovation and sustainable development' days have revolved, held in Puente de Génave (Jaén) between October 14 and 15 and promoted by the Mediterranean Rural Association in collaboration with the Diputación de Jaén and Caja Rural de Jaén. In the line of tackling the problems that the traditional ...