Olive news: Dry weather continues, limiting hopes for recovery of olive production in Greece

■ Questions about the increased production of Spain and Turkey The optimistic predictions made by services and agencies and still reproduced by various publications about the coming production of olive oil in many countries, as in Greece, do not seem to be verified. In Greece, the numbers for increased production come and go, but the continued lack of rain with zero rainfall throughout October and mid-November, in several olive-growing regions such as Crete, Western Peloponnese, Lesbos, etc., reverses the optimistic scenarios. Thus, the estimates for a bountiful production in Greece should probably be revised down quite a bit, as the prolonged drought has created problems not only for the fruits but also for the trees themselves, many of which, if the long-awaited rains do not come, will present serious problems for reviving this year's and future olive oil production. In Spain, the rains that fell in the olive-growing areas of Andalusia, according to the data of the ...