Kalamata School of Olive Oil and Olive (beta)

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We are a group of people who are experts on all the stages of producing Olive Oil and are linked together in order to combine our scientific knowledge and experience by creating a National Database Information Bank for Extra Virgin Olive Oil in which everyone can have access, either to share their concerns or to get acquainted with better practices of how to produce secure and superior quality products.

Kalamata Olive Oil School is a non-profit company based in Kalamata. It has conducted olive oil tasting seminars in Messinia province during the period 2017; the seminars were organized by the Region of Peloponnese (KEK Messinias) and the participants were olive oil producers, millers, stakeholders from the olive oil industry and olive oil enthusiasts.

It has also conducted dozens of experiments in order to improve the quality of olive oil, both during the cultivation and the production process.

The most important experiments during the years 2018 and 2019 are those attempting to record and reduce the chemical parameter of the hydrocarbons in the produced olive oil. A series of experiments and research, together with the accompanying seminars and presentations were performed throughout the province of Messinia, with many millers and producers from various groups participating. Some of them are the Agricultural Cooperative “Eleonas” of Gargalianoi, the Agricultural Cooperative of Petalidi and the Anagnostopoulos Olive Oil Mills in Manessi and Trikorfo areas.

Moreover, Kalamata Olive Oil School participated in the training of producers and millers of the Region of Peloponnese through the “Aristoil” program, which aims to establish a new category of extra virgin olive oil, the one with health claim characteristics.

Another activity is the partnership with olive oil producers by selecting those olive oils that will participate in international olive oil competitions.

Finally, Kalamata Olive Oil School, through its role as an advisor and consultant on the proper production of superior quality olive oils, is involved in the efforts the industry does to find buyers of the finished product all over the world and sell at prices well above the current price of the olive oil market.