This 2023 begins for Italy with stocks of oil for over 310 thousand tons (of which the 75% extra virgin), 10 thousand more compared to the beginning 2022. Equal to 146 thousand tons of Italian extra virgin olive oil which thus touches the 50% than what is contained in the tanks of our country. Between lampante, refined, pomace oil e awaiting classification There are 71 thousand tons.
From the timely report ofFraud Repression Institute which counts the oil declared by the subjects obliged to keep the electronic register, the first confirmation is that, despite the disappointing campaign in the regions with the greatest olive-growing vocation, green gold will not be missing from Italian tables. Perhaps it will cost a little more, given the generalized increase in prices, although it is a smaller increase compared to other increases that have registered in the shopping cart.
Two regions – Puglia and Tuscany – now hold over half of the national oil. Puglia actually has over a third with 117 thousand tons, Tuscany, however, does not disfigure with its over 47 thousand tons ready to be placed on the market. More spaced out Umbria (28 thousand tons), Calabria (26 thousand) and Sicily (24 thousand).
THEorganic oil is equal to 13,3% of inventories, stopped at 41 thousand tons, of which the 5 regions mentioned above hold more than82%, In 25 thousand tons the volume of PDO and PGI, with Terre di Bari certifying 36,6%, outstripping Tuscany, Val di Mazara and Sicily which fluctuate between 11 and 12%.
