Castilla-La Mancha saves the olive oil campaign, consolidating itself as the second producing region of Spain

CIUDAD REAL, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) - The olive oil campaign will finally close in Castilla-La Mancha, with the production of some 70 million kilos of oil, according to the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, Francisco Martínez Arroyo. A campaign that is far from the one hundred million kilos that are usually touched in the region, but "not one of the lowest" and with, "predictably, more profitability for olive growers." "We are becoming more and more of an agri-food power, also in the olive sector", celebrated the counselor, who has detailed that Castilla-La Mancha is the second Spanish region in production, "for a long time", but that every year distances more than the third and is getting closer to the head. Martínez Arroyo has valued the importance of the sector "thinking of the 80,000 olive growers in Castilla-La Mancha. We have a very powerful sector, which is doing things well", he said, and "this means profitability in our rural environment". The counselor ...