In the 2022/2023 olive oil campaign Greece e Turkey they had put together something like 760 thousand tons of olive oil (respectively 340 thousand the first and 420 thousand the second), more than all of Spain which had not exceeded 700 thousand. now, in this olive oil campaign now almost over, the numbers are dramatically different: between 150 and 170 thousand tons of oil produced for Greece and 180 thousand tons for Turkey. Merciless results for the two eastern countries of the Mediterranean basin which pay both for the year of discharge and unfavorable weather conditions.
"This was one of the worst harvests in the last 30 years," he said Olive Oil Times the producer and oil mill operator Periklis Tsoukalas of the Peloponnese, one of the most productive regions of Greece. “Aside from the small quantity and lower-than-expected yields – he added – here only 70% of the freshly pressed olive oil is classified as extra virgin due to problems with the olive fly”. Bitterly acknowledging that “the pesticides used cannot effectively fight the parasite”. But, as mentioned, the effects of the weather were the ones that had an impact, such as sudden meteorological phenomena, primarily hailstorms, which hit the olive trees in some production areas, causing the olives to fall to the ground and further worsening the problem.
And if there Greece cries, la Turkey he doesn't laugh. The official harvest estimate from the Turkish Olive Oil and Olive Oil Council (UZZK) in September predicted that Turkey's domestic olive oil production would reach only 180.000 tonnes, less than half of last year. Estimates bitterly confirmed. Last spring's erratic weather also had an impact here, prolonging winter conditions in many of the country's olive oil producing regions, interrupting the fruit setting of the olive trees.
“It is in the genetics of the olive tree that there will be much lower production after such a year,” he also told Olive Oil Times Mustafa Tan, president of UZZK, commenting on the decreasing harvest in the country. “Compared to last year, the yield per tree decreased by 55,7%, equal to 7,9 kilograms of oil. We expect – he added – that the estimated yield of olive oil will be 179.300 tonnes and 442.000 tonnes of table olives this production season. Values which in any case can cover both our exports and our consumption on the domestic market".
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