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California Olive
Committee
Today, the California Olive Industry consists
of two canneries which process the 86,000 to 160,000 tons of
olives produced by approximately 35,000 acres growing in the
warm inland valleys of the state. There are about 1,200 growers
with orchards varying from as few as five acres to multicrop
farms with over 1,000 acres.Tulare County in the central San
Joaquin Valley has over 54 percent of olive acreage, while Kings,
Kern, Fresno and Madera counties account for about 12 percent.
In the Sacramento Valley to the north, Glenn, Tehama and Butte
counties represent about 32 percent of the acreage.
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