Item by item, here are all the increases in olive farms

One out of ten olive farms work at a loss and is a closing risk. The complaint comes from Coldiretti e Unaprol citing data from Crea. To weigh, as known, the explosion of costs increased by an average of 50% in olive farms: ranging from direct and indirect increases determined by energy ranging from + 170 % of fertilizers to + 129 % for diesel in the countryside, while glass costs more than 30% more than last year, but there was also an increase in 35% for labels, del 45% for the carton, del 60% for tinplate cans, up to the 70% for plastic. Olive growers and oil millers are forced to face the increase in electricity, the costs of which have increased fivefold.
All within a season where Coldiretti and Unaprol confirm estimates of a 30% drop. Pay the highest price Southern Italy, especially in the regions most suited to olive growing such as Puglia e Calabria where, in the first case, there is a risk cut up to 50% due first to unseasonal frosts in spring and then to drought. In the central regions, such as Lazio e Toscana, the trend is patchy with a slight increase in production compared to the previous year, which can be estimated between 10 and 20%. Instead, things seem to be going better in the rest of Italy with the North, which marks an increase in production around 40-60% from Liguria, Lombardia e Veneto.
Numbers in the report “2022, the Made in Italy oil war” that Coldiretti and Unaprol have spread with the start of the oil campaign. To weigh on national production, as noted by Coldiretti, was a devastating drought never seen in the last 70 years which put the olive groves under water stress, first damaging the flowering and then the buds, especially in those areas where it was not possible to intervene with emergency irrigation to quench and refresh the plants. But several companies have decided not to intervene due to the high costs of fuel, electricity, services and support products for soil nutrition.
And if costs rise while corporate revenues fall, the household shopping cart registers increases of retail prices for most of the products of the table - explain Coldiretti and Unaprol - with extra virgin olive oil for which strong increases are expected on the shelves in the autumn with the arrival of new productions.
“It can no longer be postponed – underlined the president of Unaprol, David Granieri (in the picture) - a national strategic plan for olive growing that focuses on companies that are on the market, produce income and employment, as well as the recovery of the many abandoned olive groves that need to be renovated to restore oxygen and hope to the territories”