broaden the coal mines removing the present olive trees or closing the mines e enhance olive cultivation? AND the dilemma surrounding Turkey where on one side a new regulation allows mining companies to remove plants if this allows easier access to underground coal seams, on the other a relationship focused on the Milas district, the main olive-growing basin, it highlights how the expansion of the olive oil sector guarantees more employment, income and development.
In the background the country's actions to strengthen energy security in the light of the war in Ukraine and the large coal reserves to be exploited. A government action that does not see the agreement of the environmental associations and the community of Milas according to which allocating the resources of a single year to olive growing among those foreseen for the two coal mines present in the area would allow all to be able to work the 100 thousand tons of olives produced in the region, creating 685 places more work and increasing the income of local producers. Not to mention the beneficial effects for the environment and the fight against climate change.
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