Manuel Ângelo Rodrigues, a CIMO researcher, taught an olive growing course for marginal regions in Brazil, at the invitation of the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Campus Pato Branco. Several researchers, university students and local technicians came to the event given the growing interest that this crop is receiving in the
region. The South of Brazil already has a 6500 ha of olive orchards. See CRNC - TV report
HERE.