Experts say it's the first commercial olive crop grown in Georgia since the late 1800s.

State and federal agriculture officials have predicted that the table olive crop is down by half this year because of harsh spring weather.

The North African country's average annual olive crop stood at 145,000 tonnes over the previous decade.

We skirted the huge plantation of fig trees and smelt the olive crop ready for the press.

A poor olive crop and a fading fishing industry combined with a lapse in border controls after the revolution provided the opportunity to leave.

As the last of this season's olive crop is harvested the industry's day of reckoning is fast approaching.

Madam President, it is not necessary to highlight the enormous economic importance of the olive crop in the European Union.

The Stamniots were desperate for rain now the tourist season was over, for the final boost to swell the olive crop.

The Shaitos came from a farming village about five miles from the Israeli border in a region known for tobacco, citrus and olive crops.

The terrain is mainly flat and features olive crops as well as fruits and vegetables along with cattle and others.

Farming and ranching are still present in the city's economy, finding pig and sheep farms and vineyards and olive crops mainly.

Armed settlers, according to local reports began to hinder Yanun farmers from harvesting their olive crops, intimidating the villagers and damaging the village's electrical generator.

Historically, Bani Zeid's economy was dependent on the olive crop, which was supplied to soap factories in Nablus.

Adding composted olive mill pomace as organic fertiliser in olive orchards allows the soil to get nutrients back after each olive crop.

"All this is very painful," he said, not knowing what upset him most, losing much of his olive crop or pulling up his desiccated peach and apricot trees.

Heavy hailstorms are known to strike the area, sometimes causing damage to the local olive crop, as the olives or flowers are knocked out of their trees by falling hailstones.

Israeli checkpoints around 'Atara, as well as the harvest of 'Atara's olive crop by Israeli settlers from Ateret has effectively strained the village's economy.

The cost of harvesting the olive crop amounts to 70 % of the variable costs of the process, and a system of that kind could cause the abandonment of actual production.

Its UK representative, Jeff Bayley, said: "With the harvest drawing to a close latest returns are showing that the Spanish olive crop is a fraction of previous years.

But so far marriage had not been mentioned-although the weather, trade, the olive crop, and the new bay stallion had all been trivialized-and Chandra was hesitant about bringing the subject up herself.

In 1992, a devastating fire ruined the finest olive crops in the northern part of the prefecture, and affected the area of Sellasia along with Oinountas and its surrounding areas.

Like many other Mediterranean ports, Leptis was founded by Phoenician traders as a hub to gather the wheat and olive crops from fertile areas on the coast and in the interior.

In Spain, producer organizations have told their members not to be intimidated by bottlers and distributors, who they accuse of holding off buying the olive crop until the last moment in order to push prices down.

NSW Agriculture Fruit rots in which no pathogenic organisms were detected, decimated several table olive crops in southern NSW and South Australia in 2002.

That fall has coincided with a bumper olive crop in Spain, the biggest grower, creating a glut that has forced the EU to intervene to reduce the surplus amid worries about rural incomes.