Super High Densitive System (SHD) history and timeline
From back in February 1994 when Mr. Jose Mª Ferrer, the owner of the Valonga Plantation in Binéfar (Huesca), planted the first 6 hectares of the Arbequina variety olive trees at 3 x 1.35m for the purpose of harvesting them with the harvesting machine, until today, the... |
A group of French fruit producers from Provence, led by Jean Michel Borgeaud, decided to adopt this technology. Our neighboring country is the area in the world where olive oil is commercialized at higher prices for the wholesale market, and of course to be bottled. These prices can range around... |
It is the 3rd oil importing country in the world and in just a few years, it may become the second or even the first. Local production doesn't even reach 1%. However, the state of California meets the optimal conditions for olive tree cultivation. For this reason, a group of Spanish... |
The Cordoba company Todolivo promoted the first plantations by Portuguese investors in our neighboring country. Since then, the number of plantations in Portugal has not stopped growing. Local investors and above all, Spaniards who are attracted by the still lower value of land in comparison to... |
In the year 2000, after having followed the first plantations in Spain for several years, the local company SADIRA understood that it was time to make some decisions. Tunisia is the leading African olive oil producer and the second country in the world in planted surface area. Olive tree... |
Encouraged by their great success producing and above all, exporting quality wines, many producers began to wondering why they didn’t take advantage of these already existing trade channels to introduce a product that has always been very much connected to wine. The reality is that the... |
After observing what happened in Spain and having undertaken a small experiment in the country when the late Michel Ayello convinced Atlas Farming (Marrakech) to create the first Arbequina plantation under this model. Some time later, the King of Morocco established olive tree cultivation as the... |
Moreno Bernardini, a restless young Tuscan, was the first to create the first commercial plantation in the Transalpine country on his family’s Scarlino farm. Driven simultaneously by Professors Godini and Bellomo of the University of Bari, Mr. Giovanni Cantore undertook the first... |
After a trip to Spain in search of alternatives to the existing harvesting problems on the traditional plantations that had been undertaken in Australia, John and Karen Gorman discovered the super-intensive system which completely resolved their concerns as far as managing olive groves. Moreover... |
Fanis Papanikolopoulos and his partners through his company, Geoplant, in the Peloponnesus region were the first to promote this kind of plantation in the Hellene country. Despite the major fragmentation of property, they have done excellent work to group producers together and in this way,... |
This technology is advancing very rapidly throughout the world. Other countries have begun incorporating this technology: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Libya, Algeria, … The associated advantages (quick entry into production and total mechanization of the harvest and pruning,... |
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