Topic: olives

September 1, 2013
5:49 am

The ruby-red Rosh Pered pomegranates, growing near Binyamina, just north of Caesaraea (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

The poetic goodness of pomegranates

A father-and-son pair of organic fruit farmers talk about the whys, wheres and hows of the country’s best Rosh Hashanah fruit

By Jessica Steinberg

May 29, 2013
1:27 pm

Indian farmers learning Israeli olive expertise in Rajasthan. (photo credit: courtesy)

The Indian-Israeli olive agribusiness experiment

Though olives are hardly a staple in India, through Israeli expertise and saplings, Rajasthan farmers are expecting a bumper crop this year

By Ofira Reuben and Paul Dharamraj

November 9, 2012
8:24 pm

A Syrian man on a motorbike negotiates the price of fuel with a street vendor in the Syrian village of Atmeh, near the Turkish border (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Syria’s war shatters a village economy

A portrait of Atmeh, abutting the northern border, where farmers say they’d be lucky to get 50 cents for olives they’re unable to export

By Khalil Hamra