How similar are olives from Extremadura and the Alentejo?
This is what a cross-border research project is trying to find out.
There are three parts, a genetic characterization, a morphological characterization and a characterization
of the quality of the oils they give, both for these varieties from Extremadura and the Portuguese varieties.
Similarities which can improve, working together, the market position of the liquid gold they give us.
The benefits and the results that the project should give will be aimed to improving the market potential of oils from both Extremadura and Portugal,
in this case the 'manzanilla cacerena' and 'aceitera' olives, or the varieties 'conserva de Elvas' and 'morisca extremena'.
It would generate links for olive producers and in oil processing technologies,
and we'd be talking about greater potential because the olives and varieties are very similar.
Links which improve the commercialization of this star product of our gastronomy.
Under the umbrella of RITECA, we have the finance necessary to achieve this objective
through cross-border cooperation between Extremadura and the Alentejo.
RITECA as a dynamo of the economy through cooperation.