Italy: Skyrocketing seed oil prices has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine
Refined Sunflower Oil
Italy
Published May 6, 2022
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Official EU data released Tuesday showed that 260,000 tons of Ukrainian sunflower oil were imported into the bloc between February 27 and May 1. Shipments of sunflower oil to the EU are usually around 200,000 tons per month, FEDIOL said in early March. The recent rebound in sunflower oil availability has led to a drop in prices and the switch to rapeseed oil has stalled, FEDIOL said.
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The organization stressed that bottled sunflower oil is readily available in the EU and that the shortages on some supermarket shelves are not due to the lack of sunflower oil availability ". The analyst of international financial and agricultural markets, Sandro Puglisi, writes in his mid-week report. We pick up the news because in these days we are talking about and contesting - in solitude - the increase in the price of seed oils. We started from Palermo, where seed oils are widely used for the tradition of rotisseries and panelle. Here is a passage from our May 3 article: “The cost of a 25 liter pack of seed oil went from € 20-22 to € 80-82. Complicated to go on for the classic panels with motolape. And let's not talk about the bars and takeaways that also have to pay the super-bills for gas and electricity "(here you can read the article in full). We wondered if the war in Ukraine could have led to such a marked increase in prices (from one euro per bottle to 3-4 euro per ...
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