Andalusia shares the message of the Agro-food Cooperatives of Spain and calls for calm and prudence in the face of false statements that are causing the olive oil market to decline

The Oil Sector Council asks agricultural organizations to work for the integration of farmers into cooperatives, since it is the best tool they have to regulate the offer and defend a fair price in the market From Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de Andalucía, in agreement with Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España, we want to claim the continuous commercial effort of our cooperative companies, which work for the benefit of the profitability of their producer partners. In this context, we consider unjustified the statements of some leaders of the agricultural organization UPA, which directly attack the cooperatives and, by extension, many of their cooperative members. At this time of the campaign, the fundamental activity of the cooperatives, more than the sale of oil, is focused on serving their farmer partners in the reception and processing of the olives that are being harvested. However, we observe that there are a large number of farmers who are making the individual ...