Italy's olive bushes are demise

maybe the disease was planted intentionally to create profits for competitors?
China is trying to grow olive trees in South Africa.
Would they do something like this?

It seems kind of biblical in a way

MONSANTO!!!!!

I live in Spain and Italy buys Spanish olive oil repackages it and sells it as Italian oil. They've been doing it for years.

Bio-terrorism cannot be ruled out. Trees and plants are dying throughout the world by huge numbers and suddenly.

trees across the whole world are dying( city and rural) most logical deduction is the fn everyday spraying of earth. but udiots refuse to accept the depth of darkness by the power structure. I feel for them and perhaps because of their denia, cowardice and stupidity the power people believe they deserve to die. I wanna shame them for ignoring the obvious above their heads everyday. anyways too many people are gullible.

I live in Ventura County in Southern California. A few years ago my fifty year old olive tree was diagnosed with xylella fastidiosa by an ISA certified arborist. My once beautiful tree looks terrible.

Olive trees are directly related to fraxinus Ash, forsythia, lilac, and frindge tree. Dutch elm disease, Oak Wilt and today's Italian Olive tree killer fungus all similarly have one thing in common. It's transported from tree to tree by a vectoring bug hosting disease which feeds on small Branch crotches and leaf pedials. Each causing their own type of vascular wilt ironically resulting from defending tree itself trying to block up it's pipe system.

As Scottie Ash Tree Seed whose ancestral family emigrated to Chicago Illinois from region of Tuscany in Italia. I have become one of our nation's leading Arborist patriotically conserving some 26 native North American Ash species from Chinese emerald ash borer that arrived to Detroit area on shipping crates 30 years ago.

Since then I had introduced our critically endangered ash genus to continent of India's ancient neem tree, which had evolved a successful cure for itself by naturally producing a larvicide called azderactin too also protect it from cambium borers similar to exact type of bug attacking ash.

Thankfully for us in the US, emerald ash borers do not infect Nor disease trees. City of Chicago transformed their 36,000 inoculated trees into large living EAB Bug zappers. Defined as a 100% god sent cure because inoculations not only fully protect trees, but help substantially lower local borer populations as well.

Yes we are the same American city that totally eradicated the dreaded Asian longhorned beetle which arrived to Chicago back in the 1990s. Preventing greatest urban forestry calamity ever on planet Earth. Which unlike past killers specific to one type of tree. ALB destroys all Maple species, all Elm species, all Linden Basswood species just to name a few.

Look up the Chinese chestnut blight and how the American chestnut tree handled it. 4 billion dead 20 years later. Gone.

Those trees defined the American way of life here in the Appalachian region. The timing of industrialization was a convenient, and success way to move on

Here in 2019, Italy I’m sorry. Enjoy the last 10 good years and hope transgenics ( genetic splicing of genes) continues to receive funding in an effort to be able to make the true 1,500 year old olive trees immune

Reminds me of Citrus Greening killing citrus industry in Florida. Farmers are giving up.

So Sorry!! This beautiful plant is unique I so many ways!! ""Olive trees along The Appian Way"" is poetic; in just this simple fact!!

Government people…. trust me they know the benefits

Burning the trees might make have made this worse. It's a mutation caused by military chemicals. I smelled it in the oxygen and have been sick for a week and a half. Spanish flu was caused by evil men and this is also. Nuclear mutation. My aloe vera trees feel like dried leather. Misery.

2 bad the farmer did know the signs…. sad all of the change golbelaiy

RIP Paul Cappelli 2020 ✨

Not the noble olive tree!

Greed comes to an end for many.If it would off been like mom's and pop's oil business that probably wouldn't be happening.