Spain: The bump in olive oil outlets in December is confirmed

Olimerca.- As predicted by the olive oil sector as a whole in Spain a few weeks ago, oil shipments in the last month of the year were only 57,329 tons, not including imports, which could be around 18 /20,000 tons. A fact that, despite being expected, given the short availability of olive oil this campaign, is still worrisome. But, on the other hand, it is evident that the production in the month of December has also been very short, with only 232,391 tons, especially due to the fact that there have been fewer days available this month to collect the olives. due to the important rains that fell, without forgetting that the damage of the drought was in the tree and in the fruit. We are talking about a production in December that is 50% less than in the previous campaign when that month reached 542,600 tons. Thus, we have entered the month of January with production stocks of 382,332 tons, in packers with 233,761 tons, giving a total of 625,667 tons. Lastly, with just a few weeks to ...