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World Olive Day, marked on November 26, is a global initiative to celebrate and protect the olive tree, highlighting its cultural, economic, and environmental significance. This day was established by Unesco in 2019 to emphasize the olive tree's symbolic value of peace, wisdom, and harmony, as well as its environmental benefits such as preventing soil erosion and reducing CO2 emissions. Spain emerges as the leading producer of olives and olive oil, followed by Greece and Italy, with Morocco rounding out the top five. Peru, while not among the top producers, has seen growth in olive cultivation, with 43,000 hectares dedicated to the tree, and has experienced a rise in olive exports, both in volume and value, primarily to Spanish-speaking countries and Canada. However, there has been a slight decline in Peruvian olive oil exports in the 2020/2021 season.
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(Agraria.pe) Tomorrow -November 26- World Olive Day is commemorated, a date proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in its 40th General Conference held in 2019 in Paris (France), in order to protect and preserve this emblematic tree that serves to strengthen human and cultural values among peoples, since it is an unequivocal and universal symbol of peace, wisdom and harmony. This date was chosen because on November 26, 1992 the International Olive Council (IOC) was inaugurated in Madrid (Spain) in order to contribute to the responsible and sustainable development of the olive tree, as well as the policies to be adopted before the challenges facing this sector. The date seeks to vindicate the importance of the olive tree in agriculture, the economy, culture and the environment. Being, in addition, a source of health and good nutrition. According to UNESCO, the olive tree is a tree that needs to be protected to avoid its ...
Source: Agraria
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