OLIONOSTRUM: biodiversity and innovation for a quality extra virgin olive oil (EVO)
- Obtaining a high quality oil from a commercial and nutracetic point of view using innovative pressing techniques and exploiting the genetic characteristics of the cultivars already identified.
- Increase in oil yields.
- Definition of production techniques aimed at extending a specification for the enhancement of the already established brand
- Improvement companies profitability.
- Maintenance and enhancement of the olive landscape.
- Professional growth of olive growers and people who will have to deal with the mill by activating training and information measures.
The actions envisaged for the achievement of objectives are:
- recovery, preservation and characterization of native olive genotype belonging to the territory at risk of genetic erosion;
- agronomic and elaio-technical enhancement aimed to a rational management of new olive plants and the production of oils of the highest quality typical and characteristic of the territory;
- will be used an oil mill prototype which foresees the use of innovative solutions for all phases of the process;
- dissemination of results and training
The municipality of Bucine has activated in 2017 a three-year collaboration (2017-2019) with CNR Ivalsa of Florence for a characterization study of olive cultivars present in its territory. The cue of this research was the presence of a monumental olive tree “l’Olivone di Montebenichi” which attracted the attention of CNR technicians because it is not re-classifiable in any “standard” variety cultivated or present in the Tuscan olive groves and in the municipality of Bucine. Because of its outdated age, estimated at over 300 years, it represented something to protect, considering also the bad vegetative conditions in which prevailed. Following this, was undertaken a research on the territory involving
many olive research farms of cultivars that could have phenotypic characteristics not related to the most common of the territory.
In 2017, n° 33 different cultivars were identified, they presented unique characteristics that cannot be traced back to those normally cultivated. Of these, were taken some grafts and entrusted to a reproducer for multiplication and propagation.
Simultaneously the municipality of Bucine with the CNR has carried out a further phase of experimentation by making microfrangitures of the individual cultivars and a pressing of a blend of all the cultivars identified, using an innovative oil mill. At last, two oils were obtained: “L’Oro Verde della Valdambra” and “l’Olio della Biodiversità” which have qualitative characteristics due to the presence of polyphenols higher than oils normally produced in the same area.
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