
Olive oil production stands at 1,298,000 tonnes, enough to meet market needs
Forecasts for the 2026/27 season point to a higher olive oil harvest than the current campaign, supported by favourable weather conditions during the spring months.
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Forecasts for the 2026/27 season point to a higher olive oil harvest than the current campaign, supported by favourable weather conditions during the spring months.

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By Juan Vilar Consultores Estratégicos Portugal is one of the ten countries with the largest area of olive groves. It ranks ninth, with 361,483 hectares

The new Daymsa EnerPlus® biofertilizer achieves an increase in extractability of 38% in the Arbequina variety, confirming yield and early harvest after application. Daymsa presents

Four consecutive tenders are established that will allow storing the necessary quantities until the rebalancing of the olive oil market is achieved.

The drought and the olive grove diminish the harvest of table olives, which will be the shortest of the last decade with only 487,000 tons.

The dynamism of the olive oil market is maintained, with 145,400 tons sold in the month of July. To date, the total quantity sold is 1,303,500 tons, 16% above the previous season, with a monthly average marketing of 130,400 tons.

Sales of Olive Oils from Spain in the US exceed 28,500 tons in the first quarter of 2019 and strengthens its leadership with 38% of total imports.

Cooperatives Agro-alimentary of Spain estimates a reduction of more than 40% in the production of olive oil for the next campaign. Andalucía and Castilla La Mancha lead the decline, which in the case of the latter region, could be up to 60%.

According to data from the General Directorate of Customs, olive exports fell by 5% in 2018, from 308,380 tons to 292,

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has formally published its final resolution regarding the impact of imports of black olive from Spain on the California producing sector. As it happened in the preliminary ruling of early August of last year, the USITC has affirmatively decided to conclude that imports of Spanish laws cause harm in that sector.

The export of black table olives from Spain to the US decreased in the first quarter of the year by 42.4% compared to the same period of the previous year, from 6.9 million kilos to 4.0, according to the Department’s information. of US Customs.

Portugal will host for the first time the World Olive Oil Summit, a new international forum for the olive sector that will be held on June 7 and 8, 2018, wheres Santarém will be the hostess. This event, that will celebrate with the main thematic “Olive and Oil”, will be held at the National Exhibition Center .

The Association of Exporters and Industrialists of Table Olives (ASEMESA) warns that the investigation of the Department of Commerce of the United States against the black olive of Spanish table question the system of aid of the European Union, and could have far-reaching consequences for all the agricultural sector of the EU.

The latest measure by the Donald Trump government to protect its agro-food productions to the detriment of international trade has been a severe blow to the Spanish table olive sector, whose exports will be taxed with a tariff. The first reactions to a measure that had been brewing since this summer, when Californian olive-table companies filed a complaint against the Spanish olive, accusing it of unfair competition, have not been delayed. Thus, the Union of Small Farmers and Cattle Ranchers (UPA) urges the EU to express itself immediately and forcefully against this “illegal and unjust” tariff, which will represent a commercial barrier of between 2 and 7%.

National olive production up to May exceeds the average of previous campaigns, with a total of 1,279,500 tonnes, according to data published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) in the Oil Market Bulletin of olive for the month of May. This Bulletin analyzes the data provided by the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) on 30th April, as well as the market situation, with an increase in available resources, despite the reduction of imports.