Progress Report

Mountain Olive Green Comp.

2011

Marketing olive oil2011 2010

1012 6839 local market

  4000 Al Bahrain

1828 3091 USA

3780 7560 Korea

14405 9404 Japan

6244 7912 France

1944   UK

7236 4536 Belgium

4104 5400 Switzerland

40553 48742 total

financial-Marketing olive oil

$ Value-NIS item

99454.57 348091 Bank statement

582970 2040395 Sales of products

335773.4 1175206.8 Purchased materials

107565.9 376480.73 Expenditure

356296.9 1247039 Account Payable

81285.43 284499 Account Receivable

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.

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.

APF-loan

60000 Value $

47000 Land 0.2 hectare

50000 registration fees

80000 area planning

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.

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

Farmer to farmer Compaign

• Around 3000 $ were collected from olive producers to support Japanese people.

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.