BBC News - Tunisia fights for share of olive oil market: "Clambering up a ladder precariously balanced against an olive tree, Rajaa M'Barki is stripping olives from branches that are high up.
Branches that are beyond her reach are brought down gently, by wielding a short-handled rake.
Continue reading the main story Lemia Thabet, Tunisia Technical Packaging Centre
We can say that our bottled oil is 100% Tunisian and that counts for a lot in speciality shops
Lemia Thabet Tunisia Technical Packaging Centre
'We always hand-pick olives,' she explains. 'We never shake the tree to get the ripe olives to fall off.'
Ms M'Barki's whole extended family are working on this grove just outside Kairouan in Tunisia. The olives are being collected from beneath the tree by her younger brother."
Monday, May 17, 2010
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