Olive Production Manual
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This thorough, practical manual offers valuable information on olive production for commercial olive growers everywhere.
Sections of this book cover the history of the olive industry in California, olive botany, orchard planning, orchard maintenance (including nutrient analysis, irrigation systems, pest control, and crop management), harvesting and postharvest processing. Illustrated with numerous graphs, tables and drawings with full page colour plates.
The Olive Production manual is also know as "the best olive growers guide in the English language" and "the olive growers Bible" (156 pages, soft cover, colour photographs and diagrams.)
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Olive Propagation Manual
Authors: Andrea Fabbri, Giorgio Bartolini, Maurizio Lambardi and Stanley George Kailis
This practical manual is a guide to olive propagation, providing extended information on seed germination, rooting of cuttings, grafting and micropropagation.
The Olive Propagation Manual has been developed to take into account the future demand for olive oil, which will require active farming programs. As the olive industry moves from traditional manual methods to mechanised operations, planting stock will need to be developed to meet future challenges. Varietal selection will need to be directed to clones that are early bearing, disease resistant, able to be mechanically harvested, and produce quality fruit and oil. This book explores these issues as well as historical perspectives, traditional methods and state-of-the-art propagation.
Contents (section headings): Introduction; Flower and fruit biology in olive; Propagation by cutting; Propagation by grafting; In vitro propagation of olive; The olive nursery (stock plants, structures, equipment and operations); Appendix 1. Rooting ability of all olive cultivars of which specific literature is available; Appendix 2. Olive germplasm collections in the world.
April 2004, 160 pp, Colour Illustrations, Paperback
