The olive grove sector closes a record marketing year marked by falling prices.

The marketing campaign for olive oil 2024/2025 has concluded with an "unprecedented duality", as there has been an "extraordinarily dynamic sales pace that has once again left stocks at historic lows", juxtaposed with "a worrying downward trend in origin prices" and a growing "alarm over an upcoming harvest that could be 30% lower than expected". In this context, COAG filed a formal complaint with the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) for a possible artificial alteration of the origin prices of olive oil, which could constitute a conduct prohibited by the Law on Defense of Competition. An "unprecedented fact", point out COAG Andalusia, to which is added the public complaint about the entry of oil from Tunisia with low prices, part of it without tariffs, and "without knowing the real destination of it, as it is hardly found on supermarket shelves". After several years marked by drought, the campaign began with a recovered production that, being up to 50% higher ...