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Theft of 200 liters of olive oil

2023-10-20 19:44:36

A few days ago we wrote about skyrocketing olive oil prices and the expected small olive harvest this year in Greece. High olive oil prices and a general shortage of last year's stocks on the market result in more and more thefts of "liquid gold".

The last such incident took place yesterday, and the thieves stole 200 liters of olive oil. Unknown perpetrators broke into the house of an elderly resident of the town of Κουβέλα. However, the thieves were not interested in the contents of the living rooms, but only in the warehouse where the olive oil was stored. The fact that olive oil was the main target of the burglary is proven by the fact that the robbers brought their own containers into which they poured the olive oil.

Rationing and counterfeits

This event is probably the beginning of this type of incidents. Forecasts predict that this year's olive oil production will drop by 60-70%, and wholesale olive oil prices will start from a minimum of EUR 8. In the Peloponnese, in the first sales transaction, a liter of this year's fresh olive oil was valued at EUR 9.20. One of the Greek supermarket chains has introduced restrictions on the sale of olive oil. Consumers can buy 3-4 packages of olive oil, depending on the size of the container. There are also more and more cases of selling counterfeit olive oil. Adulterated olive oil is usually a mixture of olive oil and sunflower oil, but in the worst case it may be a mixture of soybean and sunflower oil with the addition of pigments hazardous to health.

Crete on the list of the most endangered regions

Unfortunately, experts conducting research on olive groves do not have optimistic forecasts. They predict that olive groves located in the southernmost regions of Greece will see a decline in yields in the future. Regions such as southern Crete, the Peloponnese and Thessaly are most at risk from climate change, which will cause rainfall declines, fires and intense droughts leading to desertification.

The heatwaves we have experienced this year are contributing to the drying out of the delicate white flowers of olive trees. In summer, when the trees are already bearing fruit, intense heat causes the fruit to shrink and, as a result, the quality of the later pressed olive oil deteriorates. However, olive groves are not only threatened by the heat in summer. Excessively high temperatures in winter or spring also cause problems with fruiting of trees, wilting and drying of flowers, and deformation of fruits.

According to Stavros Vemmos, professor of horticulture at the Agricultural University of Athens, climate change will lead to the transfer of olive tree cultivation to the northern regions of Greece in the future. You can see the current crop distribution on the map below. Areas marked in green have the largest area with olive groves.

Olive groves cover 5.7% of Greece

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2023-10-20 21:17:47

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Przywiozłem jak zawsze. Najlepsza

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2023-10-20 21:18:49

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Ale kraść nie ładnie. Nieraz jedyne utrzymanie ludzi, którzy ją produkują

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CRETE - Kreta

2023-10-21 03:13:54

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Mirek Jarek Takich sytuacji będzie więcej. Oliwy jest mało, a to co jest ma wysoką cenę.

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