In Italy, there is a law against the abandonment of olive groves, in Greece we deal with tin cans

All the time in Greece we have been dealing with the olive oil tin, while in other countries an effort is being made to strengthen olive cultivation. In our country, much has been heard and written in a period of time when the producer price of olive oil is at a marginal level and there is a risk of the cultivation being devalued, which in many areas is a monoculture. They talked about fines of many thousands of euros against the long-prohibited trade of bulk olive oil in 17-liter tins. All this with the aim of slandering olive producers that they are smuggling olive oil. And while this is happening in our country, in Italy they are legislating against the abandonment of olive groves. Last December, they approved an environmental law that aims to stop the abandonment of agricultural land, with tragic consequences for crops such as olive groves. According to data from the Italia Olivicola Study Center, there are currently at least 2 million hectares of olive groves in Italy in a ...