Mountain Olive Green Comp. saw a decrease in total olive oil sales from 48,742 in 2010 to 40,553 in 2011. However, they gained two new markets in the US and UK. They faced obstacles when a village that provided daily work was closed for 3 weeks due to violence. The company is working to obtain organic certification and a new warehouse, and has future plans to improve marketing, packaging, and develop a website.

1. Progress Report
Mountain Olive Green Comp.
2011

2. Marketing olive oil
2010 2011
local market 6839 1012
Al Bahrain 4000
USA 3091 1828
Korea 7560 3780
Japan 9404 14405
France 7912 6244
UK 1944
Belgium 4536 7236
Switzerland 5400 4104
total 48742 40553

3. Marketing olive oil-financial
item Value-NIS $
Bank statement 348091 99454.57
Sales of products 2040395 582970
Purchased materials 1175206.8 335773.4
Expenditure 376480.73 107565.9
Account Payable 1247039 356296.9
Account Receivable 284499 81285.43

4. Main points
In 2011 we managed to have 2 new customers,
one in the United States and the other in
United Kingdom.
Even though 2010 olive oil season was around
24000 tons, the prices of oil did not drop
because of local demand since there was not
enough oil from 2009.

5. Obstecls
There was also another incident with the
killings Jewish settlement in Itmar, where
Awarta village was closed off by the Israeli
military for almost 3 weeks. This affected our
daily work and interrupted the olive oil filling
schedule.

6. loan-APF
Value $ 60000
Land 0.2 hectare 47000
registration fees 50000
area planning 80000

7. Regarding the new warehouse, we are still
trying to get the building permit and it is in the
final stages. We hope, before the start of next
season, we would already have moved into it.

8. Main projects related to olive oil
•Reuse of Treated Wastewater in Agriculture ---
-Wastewater treatment for irrigated olive trees,
•Making Wastewater an Asset: Increasing
agricultural Production Introducing Irrigation
from Non-Conventional Water Sources
•Improve income and quality production
capacities of small olive oil producers in the
West Bank.
•Food security – olive production (reserve list) -
eu

9. Farmer to farmer Compaign
• Around 3000 $ were
collected from olive
producers to support
Japanese people.

11. Future Plan
We are also planning on getting organic certifications and if we get the project
that we applied for from the EU, we will start on this certification starting 2012.
Of course the process needs 2 years before we could sell organic olive oil but it
will be as organic under certification. The certification process takes 4 years.
open agricultural road for New UAWC warehouse , could be benefit for farmers,
Next step: uproot the olive trees and re plant it in other area, start to
construction 1100m for two parts one for storage and olive press , the other is for
storage , packaging and administration
Development study:
Improve olive oil marketing (locally and external –Swiss and Scandinavia,
Develop the packaging process and designing labels.
Website development particularly for marketing and promotion.