Spain: APAG Extremadura Asaja estimates losses of 80 million euros in the olive growing season

Specifically, APAG Extremadura Asaja has ensured that the traditional olive grove has had a very low production in all areas, with losses above 85% in the Tierra de Barros and Centro area, as has also occurred in the Southwest and Countryside areas. South; while in Vegas Altas and in the eastern zone the harvest has suffered a reduction of 60% compared to a normal year. In his opinion, the intensive and super-intensive olive grove has had a less negative behavior, with varieties such as Arbequina and Picual that “have saved the furniture a bit, within the negative trend that we have suffered and that are the confirmation of the trend that already it had been marked with table olives. "In addition to the low production, Metidieri has also denounced that they continue to pay" misery prices, as in the last season "and that it is moving in figures that are between 30 and 35 cents per kilo of olives. In summary, as indicated, the olive harvest for oil will be very short for the ...