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  • Agricultural Cooperative of Olive Oil Producers Panagias Pediados Heraklion - Olive Oil Trade Panagia Pediados Heraklion - Olive Trade Heraklion

    The Agricultural Cooperative of its 180 members has set up a Producer Group consisting of 170 producers who exploit a total of 4,733 acres of olive groves producing high quality virgin olive oil. The headquarters are in the village of Panagia of the municipality of Minoa Pediadas. Objectives of OP-AS PANAGIAS which is formed on the initiative of the olive growers of PA PANAGIAS is: the optimization of production costs and return on investment in terms of environmental standards, the conduct of research and the development of initiatives on sustainable production methods, innovative practices, economic competitiveness and market developments, the promotion and provision of technical assistance for the use of environmentally sound cultivation practices and techniques, the promotion and provision of technical support for the use of production standards, the improvement of product quality and the development of products with a protected designation of origin or a protected geographical indication or products covered by a national quality label, the management of by-products and waste, in particular for the protection of water, soil and landscape quality and preservation or promotion of biodiversity, contributing to the sustainable use of natural resources and mitigating climate change, developing initiatives in the field of promotion and marketing. participation in support programs for the olive oil and table olive sector provided for in Article 29 of Regulation (EC) 1308/2013. The village has found tools dating back to the Neolithic Age. As it is today, it is believed to have been developed by the Venetians in the 13th century. A Venetian castle was built. Panayia probably owes its name to the Byzantine Monastery of Panagia Psomopoula. Based on the oldest administrative division, Panagia was a separate community and belonged to the province of Pediados in the prefecture of Heraklion. At the time of the Ottoman rule and the years of the Cretan state, Panagia was the seat of a separate and homonymous municipality. The village is mentioned in 1577 in Venetian and Turkish censuses. 1585 (Panagia), with 278 inhabitants, and the Turkish census (1671) with 87 horses. In the periphery of the village there are many chapels associated with legends and legends. The chapel of Agios Georgios Agrimologos, Agios Nikolaos of Agia Marina where the last rare hagiographies were discovered and is located on the path leading to Viannos next to where the Moulaye's inn in Peratostrasta is located and leads out of the village basin

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