Spain: The industry rules out a shortage of sunflower oil due to the war in Ukraine but is committed to promoting cultivation

The Spanish edible oil industry considers that in the short term there is "no" danger of a shortage of sunflower oil due to the war, but that if the conflict continues it will be necessary to look for other origins for this product, of which Ukraine and Russia are its largest producers, while at the same time betting on promoting cultivation in Spain. This was stated this Monday to Efeagro by the general director of the National Association of Edible Oil Refiners and Bottlers (Anierac), Primitivo Fernández, consulted before the decision of some supermarkets to limit the sale of sunflower oil due to the bulky consumption that consumers were doing for fear of a shortage. “In the short term there should be no problem (of shortages). In the long term, if this persists, yes, since both Ukraine and Russia are the two most important sunflower oil producing countries in the world and we have to go to other origins," Fernández said. The director of Anierac has indicated that in the ...