AEMO: Let's not let the distant rapeseed fields prevent us from seeing our olive grove in Spain

The fat market in Spain has been convulsed this March in the face of a new situation, never before known and derived from the war in Ukraine, a situation that deserves reflection from within. In the balance of total consumption of fats in our country, we will lack around 400,000 T of oil that will no longer be imported from the Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, from Russia. We are referring to the sunflower oil that we traditionally import from that part of Europe and whose most frequent uses are its direct consumption in the kitchen, whether domestic or catering, and that destined for the agri-food industry with its use in processed foods, mainly packaged fried foods, and also in preserves. And note that this situation will not be a matter of months, since this spring Ukraine already considers the sunflower planting lost and therefore the situation will be at least 1.5 or 2 years. Faced with this dilemma, fat market operators have found it necessary to look for alternatives to ...