Completed project
Extending OliveCare to foster excellence in production of Australian olives (OL17006)
Publication date: March 7, 2022
Delivery Partner: Australian Olive Association
Beginning late 2018, this three-year investment helped build and maintain the quality of Australian olive products. The project supported olive producer participation relating to the Australian Olive Industry Code of Practice (OliveCare®) and expanded participation to more retailers, food service distributors and exporters.
Specifically, the project:
The team engaged with olive producers and processors, product brand owners, and supply chain partners such as food service, retailers, importers, and exporters. Up to 150 olive enterprises directly engaged with the OliveCare program, with additional industry stakeholders exposed to project activities through AOA’s various communication platforms.
Several key activities and outputs were delivered by the program, including:
Via its assessments, the team reported that overall EVOO brand performance improved to 80 per cent during program period, up from 68 per cent. Importantly, products classified as Lampante olive oil (inferior and not fit for consumption without further processing) has all but disappeared from the Australian marketplace, down from 30 per cent in 2014/15 analysis. To date there are 24 OliveCare members representing 44 EVOO products that have been issued with Freshness Tested Compliance Certificates.
OliveCare member Best Practice Compliance was reported as excellent, at 70-80 per cent, with members consistently out-performing non-members in olive competitions, a measure of increased skills and capacity building.
Find out more about OliveCare® and available resources in the members area of the Australian Olives website.
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Olive Fund
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