Less oil and high prices a year to forget – The Republic

In terms of quantity vintage olive 2014-2015 that is emerging in Puglia, it will certainly be forgotten, with a drop of olive production by over 20% and a sharp decline in yields up to 50%. “The only positive – says the president of Coldiretti Puglia, Gianni Cantele- market performance of the ‘oil. Prices totaled about 4,5û4,8 euro per kilo, perhaps the highest in the last 10 years, obviously because they already is tangible in perspective, the sharp decline in production and due to the intensification of controls. Particularly in view of the ‘trend of the olive harvest in Puglia, the leading Italian manufacturer, the rest of Italy (Umbria and Tuscany quantities are at their lowest historical) and in Europe, you have to raise your guard, because it is a clear risk that the market is flooded with products of dubious origin and provenance, and then passed off as’ made in Italy ‘.

L’ climate trend, absolutely unstable with spring temperatures and persistent attacks fly spread throughout the region have reduced the amount.

“The scenario Italian and international-continuous Angelo Corsetti, director of Coldiretti Puglia- require to apply the major changes to the legislation introduced the ‘Law-Save Oil’ was approved in February 2013 under the pressure of Coldiretti which includes measures of prevention, repression and fight against fraud and exploitation of the true Made in Italy, but still not applied to the inertia of the public administration and the ‘action of the lobby at national and Community level. “

In the meantime, consumers should pay close attention to the label which, although often hidden on the back of the bottle and brought back to lowercase characters, must contain the words’ obtained a mixture of oil or Community extracomunitari- if it is not 100% oil ‘. The blame the lack of transparency, given that four out of five bottles of extra virgin olive oil for sale in Italy contain mixtures of different origin, for which it is practically unreadable origin of the olives used. On the bottles of extra virgin olive derived from foreign sales in supermarkets is almost impossible, in most cases, read the inscriptions’ mixtures of Community olive oils’, ‘mixtures of non-Community olive oils’ or’ mixtures of olive oils Community and non-Community ‘compulsory by law in the labels of olive oil.

Over the last decade the total imports of olive oils in the Puglia region grew faster than exports, confirming the substantial deterioration of competitive position in the chain of Puglia in foreign markets. Total imports of olive oil amounted to an average of about 87,000 tons, against exports hovered around the 38,000 tonnes. The foreign oil are imported mainly from Spain, Greece and Tunisia, purchased at prices lower than the regional product and used by the bottlers to obtain regional blend with oils. Exports of virgin Puglia, however, are directed for the most part in the United States, Japan, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Australia and Canada.