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This thorough, practical manual offers valuable information on olive production for commercial olive growers everywhere.
Sections of this book cover the history of the olive industry in California, olive botany, orchard planning, orchard maintenance (including nutrient analysis, irrigation systems, pest control, and crop management), harvesting and post harvest processing. Illustrated with numerous graphs, tables and drawings with full page colour plates.
The Olive Production manual is also know as "the best olive growers guide in the English language" and "the olive growers Bible"
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Olive Production Manual – 2nd EditionUniversity of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
Technical Editors: G Steven Sibbett &
Louise Ferguson
Contents
THE OLIVE INDUSTRY
1.
History and Scope of the Olive Industry
1
2.
California Table Olives: Marketing, Imports
and the Federal Marketing Order
11
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
3.
Botany of the Olive
15
ORCHARD PLANNING
4.
Olive Cultivars and Propagation
19
5.
Site Selection and Preparation, Tree Spacing
and Design, and Initial Training
27
THE OLIVE TREE AND FRUIT
6.
Carbohydrate and Nitrogen Assimilation
35
7.
Root Physiology and Rootstock Characteristics
39
8.
Flowering, Pollination, Fruiting, Alternate
Bearing and Abscission
49
9.
Pruning Mature Bearing Olive Trees
55
10.
Olive Irrigation Management
61
11.
Effects of Water Stress on Olive Tree Performance
71
12.
Mineral Nutrient Availability
75
13.
Diagnosing and Correcting Nutrient Problems
83
14.
Olive Fruit Thinning
101
PEST MANAGEMENT
15.
Arthropod Pests of Olives
105
16.
Nematodes of Olives
115
17.
Diseases of Olives
119
18.
Weed Management in Olives
123
19.
Spray Application Principles and Techniques
129
HARVESTING
20.
The Olive Harvest
135
PROCESSING THE CROP
21.
Grading Canning Olives
141
22.
Processing California Olives
145
23.
Olive Oil Production
157
COLOUR PLATES
93-100
INDEX
175