World's largest olive grove/farm/plantation in Saudi Arabia (7.335 ha.)

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Largest single olive tree plantation (Nadec) in the world (3.5 million olive trees) in the same Al-Jouf province. Recognized by Guinness World Records recently.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1013425264972435459

Ancient region of Arabia and the Middle East as well with some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Nearby Sakakah is for instance almost 5000 years old.

Al Jouf, the largest modern olive grove in the world

2019/05/02 -The famous Guinness Book, the Bible of records, says so. With a total of 7,335 ha. of modern olive groves, the olive farm of Al Jouf (Saudi Arabia) is the largest in the world on a single border. An extension that will foreseeably double in 2030, when production could reach 100,000 t. of extra virgin olive oil of great quality. The following is an extract of the article that will be published in the next issue of Mercacei Magazine.



Yauf is one of the 13 provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, nailed to the north of the country, delimited by Jordan to the north and the provinces of Frontier of the North to the east; Hail to the south; and Tabuk to the west. Its capital is Sakaka and has just over 100,000 inhabitants. The orography is eminently desert.

Here is located Al Jouf Agricultural Development Company (JADCO), whose olive exploitation dates back to 1996, currently with a total of 7,335 hectares of olive groves of diverse nature, variety, age and way of cultivation, which makes it the largest modern olive grove on the planet in just one line, as the Guinness Book of Records has proved. The annual growth range is 500 ha. additional per campaign, which guarantees that it is very likely to maintain this record for the next few years.

Of the total area, currently approximately 60% is an intensive olive grove and among the cultivated varieties stand out the picual or the local Sorani, Nepali or Quaisy. In 2009, this density system of intensive plantation with drip irrigation reached 4,000 hectares cultivated.

The farm currently produces almost 20 million kilos of olives, of which 45% correspond to the olive trees of greater density and the remaining 55% to less intensive olive trees.

The industrial area linked to the farm is located in an integrated way in a complex and consists first of a oil press with capacity for 150 t./day of olives, of which half are processed according to the Californian system and the other half through the Sevillian mode. Similarly, the site has two oil mills, one of new execution and another dating from the 90s, when the project began.

Article for Mercacei Magazine by Juan Vilar Hernández, economic analyst in international olive growing, permanent professor at the University of Jaén and founder and CEO of Juan Vilar Consultores Estratégicos, S.L.

https://en.mercacei.com/noticia/1909/news/al-jouf-the-largest-modern-olive-grove-in-the-world.html

Related thread:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/olive-and-olive-oil-production-in-ksa.289789/

 

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Iconic scene. Sicily has a deep connection to the Arab civilization. There is even a strong theory that the word "mafia" originates from Arabic.

ETYMOLOGY
The word mafia (Italian: [ˈmaːfja]) derives from the Sicilian adjective mafiusu, which, roughly translated, means "swagger", but can also be translated as "boldness" or "bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu (mafioso in Italian) in 19th century Sicily signified "fearless", "enterprising", and "proud", according to scholar Diego Gambetta.[2]In reference to a woman, however, the feminine-form adjective mafiusa means 'beautiful' or 'attractive'.

Because Sicily was once an Islamic emirate from 831 to 1072, mafia may have come to Sicilian through Arabic, though the word's origins are uncertain. Possible Arabic roots of the word include:

• ma'afi (معفي) = exempted. In Islamic law, Jizya, is the yearly tax imposed on non-Muslims residing in Muslim lands. And people who pay it are "exempted" from prosecution.
• màha = quarry, cave; especially the mafie, the caves in the region of Marsala, which acted as hiding places for persecuted Muslims and later served other types of refugees, in particular Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Redshirts" after their embarkment on Sicily in 1860 in the struggle for Italian unification.[3][4][5][6][7]
• mahyas (مهياص) = aggressive boasting, bragging[5]
• marfud (مرفوض) = rejected, considered to be the most plausible derivation; marfud developed into marpiuni (swindler) to marpiusu and finally mafiusu.[8]
• mu'afa (معافى) = safety, protection[6]
• Ma àfir = the name of an Arab tribe that ruled Palermo.[9][5] The local peasants imitated these Arabs and as a result the tribe's name entered the popular lexicon. The word mafia was then used to refer to the defenders of Palermo during the Sicilian Vespers against rule of the Capetian House of Anjou on 30 March 1282.[10]

The public's association of the word with the criminal secret society was perhaps inspired by the 1863 play I mafiusi di la Vicaria [it] ("The Mafiosi of the Vicaria") by Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaspare Mosca.[11] The words mafia and mafiusi are never mentioned in the play. The play is about a Palermo prison gang with traits similar to the Mafia: a boss, an initiation ritual, and talk of "umirtà" (omertà or code of silence) and "pizzu" (a codeword for extortion money).[12] The play had great success throughout Italy. Soon after, the use of the term "mafia" began appearing in the Italian state's early reports on the phenomenon. The word made its first official appearance in 1865 in a report by the prefect of Palermo Filippo Antonio Gualterio [it].[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia

The blessed olive tree is native to the Arab world. The Qur'an itself considers the olive tree a blessed tree as do several ahadith.

 

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The number of olive trees in Al-Jouf region is approaching 30 million. All the farms are organic as well.

In order to cope with the expansion in olive plantations (1,000.000 trees) and the subsequent huge yield, the company has installed a modern olive pressing mill of 240 tons/day, which is the largest in the region. The extraction technique is purely natural (on cold), which maintains the natural flavor, taste and nutritional composition of the oil. Aljouf olive oil had gained an excellent international reputation in the major olive oil markets in the world. A volume of 600 tons had been exported to Spain and Italy. Aljouf olive oil has been certified as organic by the prestigious organization C O A F.

http://www.aljouf.com.sa/en_projects_details.aspx?id=26

Olive oil festival in the region:

From 2015, but yearly occurrence.

Local delicacies containing local olive oil and olives.

 

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Saudi Arabia to Build Asia’s Largest Olive Mill
NADEC, the largest ecological olive oil producer in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, will build the largest olive mill in Asia to boost its production.

By ROSA GONZALEZ-LAMAS on March 27, 2019

Spain’s Grupo GEA and the National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC), the largest ecological olive oil producer in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, have signed an agreement to build Asia’s largest olive mill.

The mill will be located in the province of Al-Jouf, which is situated in the north of the country and is in close proximity to where NADEC is in the process of planting five million olive trees on 7,400 acres.

The majority of the olive trees planted will be Picual, in what is expected to be the world’s largest olive orchard, which features super intensive cultivation with modern drip irrigation systems.

The state-of-the art oil mill, which is expected to be operational in six months, is a turnkey project with a cost that exceeds €3 million ($3.41 million).

The project represents a new stage in the relationship between NADEC and GEA, which in 2016 completed the first phase of this project. With the second phase, GEA will deliver an olive oil mill offering an integrated solution that encompasses civil and automation engineering, processing, training and the required industrial equipment.

The processing lines have been built to respond to different requirements, depending on national traditions and the size of the harvest. These factors will dictate which kind of production methods are chosen.

GEA supplies complete processing lines from taking in and cleaning of the olives to milling, malaxing (continuous or batch,) separation and decanting. Once oil is obtained the processing lines can also handle treating pomace as well as water. The tailor-made systems have also been designed in order to obtain the maximum possible yield and quality, while minimizing water consumption.

The mill will be built in Úbeda, Andalusia, and then transported to Saudi Arabia. GEA’s project will bring together the expertise of several machinery manufacturers from Spain to craft the integrated solution that sets apart this turnkey project from other mills in the region.

Saudi Arabia began to plant olive trees on a large scale back in 2007 in Al-Jouf in order to supply its domestic consumption. According to olive expert, Juan Vilar, by 2018 Saudi Arabia had planted nearly 52,000 acres of olive groves in Al-Jouf.

Desert areas divide olive groves, located north and south of Saudi Arabia, where olive trees are handled with great respect because of their spiritual value in Islam. Most of Saudi Arabia has a desert climate with extremely low rainfall and extreme temperature differences between day and night.

Al-Jouf is considered the kingdom’s olive resort, with a rich cultural heritage and diverse natural environment which makes it one of Saudi Arabia’s top tourist destinations.

Saudi Arabia is home to three of the world’s largest modern olive groves in terms of density, dimension and cultivation techniques. Cultivation in the country is completely mechanized. Almost 80 percent of the Kingdom’s olive cultivation is geared toward olive oil production and the remaining 20 percent to table olives.

The construction of this olive mill is a new stage in a working relationship between Spain and Saudi Arabia toward the consolidation of the latter’s olive and olive oil industries. Al-Jouf’s University and the University of Jaén are collaborating in research topics related to the olive sector to improve production capacity.

A total of 21 research projects are planned as part of this agreement responsible for the creation of an Advanced Center for Olive and Olive Oil Studies, and the transfer of technology and technical knowledge.

https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive...a-to-build-asias-largest-olive-oil-mill/67408

 

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I'm 100% sure that this is not local Arab breakfast.

 

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I am 100% sure that you are unaware of how much Arab cuisine has influenced Anatolian cuisine. Without Arab influences there would be no Anatolian/Turkish cuisine. When Salim I reached the Arab world in 1517, Turkish/Anatolian cuisine gained access to 100's of new spices, tastes etc.

Anyway, it is 100% Arab.

https://lifeinsaudiarabia.net/traditional-typical-saudi-breakfas/

As is this:

 

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Buddy Turkic dynasties controlled the Silk road for centuries, wtf you talking?

Reverse google pic search and you will see that this is Turkish breakfast.
I see...
Kaymak and Honey.
Menemen.
Kavut.
Pekmez.
Acuka.
Sucuk and eggs.

Short typical Van kahvaltisi (breakfast).

 

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Buddy in which universe is Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) located in Central Asia and Northern China/Mongolia? The Silk Road was not the main spice trade route either since few of the main spices existed in China let alone Central Asia where none of the known spices existed/originate from.

The spice trade was controlled by the Arabs and was a maritime trade route. Most of the spices originated from South East Asia/India or Arabia. Since ancient times.

It is absolutely true that the Ottomans gained access to an entire new food culture that influenced them greatly from 1517 onwards. You can read about this in Turkish yourself. Do a bit of research.

Anyway, 99.9% of the photos and videos are of Saudi Arabian breakfast. I don't know which photo you are talking about. Even the photo in that article about Saudi Arabian breakfast is the same. We use the same ingredients. There is nothing fancy in that photo that we Arabs don't use in our 100's of different mezze dishes. Many of the dishes in the region are shared regionally.

 

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Freezing temperatures (way below 0 celsius) have been recorded last month and now this month again. Could negatively impact this years harvest but I believe that precautions have been taken given that such temperatures are not a novelty in this region of KSA.

 

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