Le organizations representing the agricultural sector of Jaén they showed their concern for the theft of olives that are occurring and for the possibility that they may be repeated in the next harvest season due to the current situation of olive oil prices.
In a joint statement relaunched by the Spanish magazine Mercacei, these organizations recalled that they had requested a meeting with the government subdelegate and hoped that she would receive them soon to address this concern that exists in the sector.
“Aware of good work done by the Roca teams of the Guardia Civil in previous campaigns", they are confident that they will increase their number and controls in the next harvest and have asked farmers and institutions to pay extreme attention in the field and in the structures.
According to agricultural acronyms, this is an obvious concern after i oil thefts occurred in facilities in other nearby provinces, such as Córdoba and Málaga, and theft attempts in his own province of Ja,ù. Faced with this panorama, motivated - as they underlined - by the current price of oil, and a few days before the start of a new harvest campaign, which is expected to be short due to limited fruit on the trees, organizations representing the agricultural sector in Jaén fear an increase in robberies in the countryside.
In addition to the economic damage that these criminal actions would cause, since the price of a kilo of olives could be around 2 euros this season, the associations warn of the damage that can be caused to both the olive trees and the fields, as well as the structures of the cooperatives and the oil mills, asking the Government Sub-Delegation that the Civil Guard increase its control and surveillance work in the olive groves of the province to minimize this type of action.
Likewise, the three agricultural organizations and cooperatives hope that the Andalusian government will redouble its efforts to obtain a greater control, mostly at the olive purchasing points, requiring all farmers to provide documentation proving the origin of the olives to verify that they were harvested legally.
