- For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Greek" has become the highest standard of quality.
- In Crete, olive seems finds the ideal conditions for its growth. Prefers the mild Mediterranean climate. Loves moisture, but can survive in extreme drought. Loves the mild Mediterranean winter and greedily sucks the warm Mediterranean light. Grows best in fertile soils. But in the most barren, dry and rocky soils like those of Crete can take root and bear fruit.
The olive groves of Crete spread over the years and now occupy a large part of the total area of the island. The agricultural land of the island which is about 3,6 Km2 and is 37% of the total area taken by 65% (2,350,000 acres) of olive groves, 10% of vineyards, 3% of Horticulture, by 3 % of Citrus and the remaining 20% from various other fruit and annual crops.
- The groves of the island today include a number at least 35 million trees and no significant diversity.
- A variety, KORONEIKI (the Ladolia the Psilolia) dominates and currently occupies 85% of the olive groves of the island. It is a variety that produces j small but abundant fruit almost every year and is regarded as one of the most productive varieties of the world.
- In smaller percentages there are other varieties that have quite a bit high trunks other productive trees are grown in different areas of the island such as Tsounati in Chania, on the Throumbolia Chondrolia Rethymnon and Heraklion.
- The Employment with olives
- In Crete, a few families are not engaged in olive growing. About 95.5 thousand rural families, that almost all rural families and the majority of urban families in Crete have also cultivate their own or with the help of seasonal workers - mainly harvest time - a small or large number of trees.
- In each family correspond approximately 150-200 trees which gives the opportunity to the Cretan olive to care for themselves almost all the work required by cultivation.
- Crete only produces about 5% of the olive oil in the world
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The olive groves of Crete spread over the years and now occupy a large part of the total area of the island. The agricultural land of the island which is about 3,6 Km2 and is 37% of the total area taken by 65% (2,350,000 acres) of olive groves, 10% of vineyards, 3% of Horticulture, by 3 % of Citrus and the remaining 20% from various other fruit and annual crops.
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