Portugal: Oil sector forced to stop

In a year in which olive oil production is expected to reach values in the order of 180,000 tons, which is the biggest campaign since there are records, FENAZEITES became aware that the entire olive sector in Alentejo has been paralyzed since the harvest from olives to the presses that transform it. Due to the boom in production this year, the three large units for receiving olive pomace from the cooperative and non-cooperative mills, which process all the olives produced in the Alentejo, «have their storage capacity exhausted or practically exhausted and they no longer accept raw materials». This whole situation is causing "incalculable damage" to farmers and companies linked to the sector, "in addition to what will be appalling what may happen to the olive oil value chain, as there is no place to put that olive pomace, whose estimated production is expected to reach the 900,000,000 Kgs», reads a statement. Sector notices have been devalued The cooperative sector, through ...