This olive year will reward those olive growers who do not work intensively. Those who did not do anything for some reason will benefit from the olive groves.
“The best were those olive groves whose owners did not carry out autumn fertilization, which is an important measure in the cultivation of olives, nor did they perform pruning on time, which is a necessary measure in the cultivation of olives. Those who implemented these agro-technical measures suffer great damage in the olive groves.
Olive groves in the coastal zone suffer especially freezing damage. So, those who worked less were rewarded by nature this year, and they punished those who were diligent. In our olive grove, about 20 percent of the olive trees have dried up. This is a direct consequence of freezing at the end of February “, points out Ante Duvnjak, owner of the Olive Oil Center” Sveti Ivan “from Vodice, whose olive grove has 1000 olive trees.
Ante Duvnjak says that in the past decade he thought that all possible situations around the olive harvest had changed and happened, referring to record years after the harvest such as 2013, over the years without harvest, such as the extreme year of 2014, until last year’s harvest. , which is extremely good in terms of fruit quality and olive oil quality.
Ante Duvnjak started olive growing and olive oil production in 2006, when he bought and installed the Rapanelli olive processing plant. Then he built the Olive Oil Center “Sveti Ivan” in Vodice, which has various facilities and in which part is located and production and storage space, where the oil is stored in ideal conditions for aging.
The facility also has an above-ground part with presentation halls and rooms for tasting and selling olive oil. A laboratory for the analysis of olive oil is also planned there.