December 23, 2018 - The olive groves Džidžarin in Stari Bar and Valdanos near Ulcinj are the first in Montenegro to be officially mapped according to the most modern method, which is the current world hit in agriculture and is based on satellite images and other data processed by the Geographic Information System (GIS).
This spatial data management system enables the creation of "smart cards" with precise parameters, in the specific case, how much the olive is on which plot, and is enabled thanks to the trilateral IPA project "Cross-border Olive" in which the Municipality of Bar and Association for sustainable development, regional cooperation and olive growing Valdanos. "For now, there are" Wine Roads "- the wine routes in Crmnica, and this project aims to map the olives to their tourist valorization, that is, to the" Old olive trees," they announced from the Municipality.
Džidžarin is one of the biggest and most beautiful olive complexes in Bar municipality. Experts point out that its great and ambient value is that, together with the remains of the old town, stone bridges, and mills in its immediate surroundings, it is one of the most valuable microcircuits on the entire Montenegrin coast. Džidžarin in KO Bartula, has a total area of about 70 hectares, with about 10.000 roots of olive trees in possession of approximately 130 owners.
Experts at the University “Ka Foscari” in Venice and the Homeland Museum found the remains of Greek culture from the 4th century before the new era in Džidžarin which was established by laboratory analysis of samples in 2009 in Venice. It was then announced that this olive tree is older than two millennia by these analyzes. Earlier, among the olive growers of Bar, there were speculations that these trees are ancient. The total budget of the current INTERREG IPA project is 625. Four hundred forty euros and the Municipality of Bar received an IPA grant of 73,962 euros. The biennial project started on May 28th this year, Džidžarin was chosen by Bar Secretariat for Agriculture and Rural Development by the project criteria for selecting a location for mapping olives in the GIS system.
The leading partner in the “Cross-Border Olive” is the Faculty of Agriculture in Tirana, and beside Bar and Ulcinj, the other partners are the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute from Bari, the Urban Research Institute in Tirana and the Venafra Historical and Agricultural Park of Olives. This kind of mapping of old olive trees will also be done in Albania and Italy.
Text by Radomir Petric, on December 22nd, 2018, read more at Vijesti
