Olive Oil Prices Rising March 5, 2015 Source: Olivenews The 2014-15 global harvest season was the lowest of the past 15 years. Italy’s disastrous harvest and Spain’s reduced output have pushed prices up for this year. Italian EVOO at the source is currently up 90% (€5.35 vs €2.82 per...
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US Olive Oil Imports Source: International Olive Oil Council February 19, 2015 20 years ago, US Olive oil imports amounted to 123,000 metric tons of which 13% came into the country in bulk form. By last year, imports had grown to 312,000 metric tons of which 41% was in...
Italian Food Mafia 27 January 2015 Source: Forbes “Organised criminal activity in Italy’s farming sector flourished last year because of bad weather, which damaged crop production and allowed criminal groups to sell more counterfeit products,” the Financial Times reported. Italy’s National Agricultural Association found that illegal agricultural businesses increased...
Source, Daily Mail, UK. A wet summer in combination with a fruit fly blight, has led to a widespread failure of the annual harvest in large parts of Italy, with some producers not harvesting at all this year according to the Confederation of Agricultural producers in Italy (CIA). Production fell...
The 2013-14 Italian harvest produced 480,000 metric tons of olive oil, down 8% from last year. The average annual Italian olive oil production, its Imports, Exports and Consumption are listed below:
