MOROCCO LAUNCHES OLIVE OIL EXPORTS TO CHINA
April 21st, 2015
China’s new found taste for olive oil is growing, opening up new sales channels for olive oil producing countries and Morocco is one potential beneficiary. Morocco is the fourth largest exporter of olive oil and olives after the European Union (EU), Turkey and Tunisia, currently producing between 100,000 and 120,000 tonnes per year of which 25,000 tonnes are exported.”Since 2010 the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) has been raising awareness of the benefits and taste of olive oil to the newly affluent Chinese middle classes. Now for the first time a ...
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