ORGANOLEPTIC EVALUATION TO OLIVE OIL, TO “FRANTOIO” CULTIVATOR IN ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA ELBASAN

The area of Elbasan is placed in the central part of Albania in the valley high of the river Shkumbin. There are fertile areas cultured around the city especially with vegetables, there are also hills cultivated with trees and olives. The valley of the river Shkumbin makes possible that the olive cultivation to reach even this far away the seacost as its position is protective from the cold winds of west. The ground in which olive is planted is a hilly steep land, dry and relatively poor in nutrient elements, where the other cultures do not provide production at all.Mainly the land in which the “Frantoio”variety is cultivated in Elbasan are the hills of the area of Shirgjani hills, Dumrea’s and Sulova’s. The study of this is done in the year 2009 in order to observe the quality and the organoleptic properties of the olive oil of the ‘Frantoio’ variety as well as the advantages that this variety has in comparison with other varieties. The establishment of physico-chemical parameters is done in the analysis lab near DRBUMK in Elbasan. The ‘Frantoio’ variety is one of the varieties with manufacture and constant production and has a high value of fitness. It provides manufacture every year and it is a cultivator that produces a special oil for the fruit fragrance and stable in time. It is resistant toward: tuberculosis, the olive fly and of cold.It has a powerful vegetative growth especially in its first years of life. It has an oval fruit 2.5-3.2gram.The oil has a golden in light green color, with a kind smell and is nutrient.